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Titolo |
Earthy realism : the meaning of Gaia / / edited Mary Midgley |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Exeter, UK ; ; Charlottesville. VA, : Imprint Academic, c2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-68978-2 |
1-84540-385-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (142 p.) |
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Collana |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Biology - Philosophy |
Gaia hypothesis |
Nature - Effect of human beings on |
Religion and science |
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Formato |
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 and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Patricia Spallone: The Gaia Effect - Making the LinksAnne Primavesi: Can Gaia Forgive Us?; John Mead: The Human Psyche & the Imminence of Climate Catastrophe; David Midgley: Climate Change and Spiritual Transformation; Susan Canney: Reconnecting a Divided World - Links Between the Global and the Local; Maggie Gee: Imagining Gaia - Art Living Lightly With Science; Elaine Brook: Gaia and the Sacred Feminine; Back matter; Other titles by Imprint Academic and Andrews UK |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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GAIA, named after the ancient Greek mother-goddess, is the notion that the Earth and the life on it form an active, self-maintaining whole. By its use of personification it attacks the view that the physical world is inert and lifeless. It has a scientific side, as shown by the new university departments of earth science which bring biology and geology together to study the continuity of the cycle. It also has a visionary or spiritual aspect. What the contributors to this book believe is nee... |
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