02817nam 2200637Ia 450 991082004960332120240516213740.01-283-68978-21-84540-385-1(CKB)2560000000090513(EBL)990075(OCoLC)809768320(SSID)ssj0000704823(PQKBManifestationID)12218436(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000704823(PQKBWorkID)10719612(PQKB)11196345(MiAaPQ)EBC990075(Au-PeEL)EBL990075(CaPaEBR)ebr10589652(CaONFJC)MIL400228(EXLCZ)99256000000009051320070613d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEarthy realism the meaning of Gaia /edited Mary Midgley1st ed.Exeter, UK ;Charlottesville. VA Imprint Academicc20071 online resource (142 p.)Societas ;v. 30Description based upon print version of record.1-84540-080-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 UKGAIA, 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...Societas (Imprint Academic (Firm)) ;v. 30.BiologyPhilosophyGaia hypothesisNatureEffect of human beings onReligion and scienceBiologyPhilosophy.Gaia hypothesis.NatureEffect of human beings on.Religion and science.304.2Midgley Mary1919-554950MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910820049603321Earthy realism4040607UNINA