Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition - Hardcover

Berry, Wendell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1582430586 ISBN 13: 9781582430584

Verlag: Counterpoint, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Berry Wendell

Über diesen Titel

Reseña del editor:

Disputes the assertations of E.O. Wilson's Consilience, claiming that religion and art are not subject to modern science.

Reseña del editor:

A thought-provoking and concise rebuttal to E.O. Wilson's Consilience. In his best-seller Consilience , E.O. Wilson presented a blueprint for the reconciliation of science with religion and the arts. In a carefully measured response, Wendell Berry demonstrates that Wilson's reconciliation is nothing more than the subjugation of religion and art by science, which alone, according to Wilson, would set the boundaries of discourse among the three disciplines. Berry argues that religion and art are not subject to the reductionist and materialistic assumptions of modern science, and cannot be contained within its boundaries or explained by its explanations. He says the aims of science have become hard to distinguish from those of industry and commerce, and he advocates a new Emancipation Proclamation to free life itself from enslavement by the corporations and their scientific underlings.The aim, according to Berry, is not consilience among the disciplines, but rather conversation. He concludes his argument by suggesting a number of changes in thought which would enable such a conversation to take place.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Counterpoint
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1582430586
• ISBN 13: 9781582430584
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176