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Autore |
Midgley Mary <1919-, > |
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Titolo |
The myths we live by / / Mary Midgley |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 |
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ISBN |
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1-134-39252-4 |
1-134-39253-2 |
1-280-04707-0 |
9786610047079 |
0-203-48092-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (203 p.) |
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Classificazione |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Myth |
Symbolism |
Philosophy |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-184) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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How myths work -- Our place in the world -- Progress, science and modernity -- Thought has many forms -- The aims of reduction -- Dualistic dilemmas -- Motives, materialism and megalomania -- What is action -- Tidying the inner scene : why memes? -- The sleep of reason produces monsters -- Getting rid of the ego -- Cultural evolution? -- Selecting the selectors -- Is reason sex-linked? -- The journey from freedom to desolation -- Biotechnology and the yuk factor -- The new alchemy -- The supernatural engineer -- Heaven and earth, an awkward history -- Science looks both ways -- Are you an animal? -- Problems about parsimony -- Denying animal consciousness -- Beasts versus the biosphere? -- Some practical dilemmas -- Problems of living with otherness -- Changing ideas of wildness |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Mary Midgley argues in her powerful new book that far from being the opposite of science, myth is a central part of it. In brilliant prose, she claims that myths are neither lies nor mere stories but a network of powerful symbols that suggest particular ways of interpreting the world. |
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