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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Midgley Mary <1919-2018, >"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"The myths we live by / / Mary Midgley ; with a new foreword by the author"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-283-10375-3"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9786613103758"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-136-80753-5"]
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[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (297 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Routledge classics"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"201/.3"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Myth - Social aspects - History"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Civilization, Modern - Philosophy"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Electronic books."]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Originally published: 2004. With new foreword."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Cover; Mary Midgley The Myths We Live By; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword To The Routledge Classics Edition; 1. How myths work; 2. Our place in the world; 3. Progress, science and modernity; 4. Thought has many forms; 5. The aims of reduction; 6. Dualistic dilemmas; 7. Motives, materialism and megalomania; 8. What action is; 9. Tidying the inner scene: why memes?; 10. The sleep of reason produces monsters; 11. Getting rid of the ego; 12. Cultural evolution?; 13. Selecting the selectors; 14. Is reason sex-linked?; 15. The journey from freedom to desolation"]
[{"$nulls":4},"16. Biotechnology and the yuk factor17. The new alchemy; 18. The supernatural engineer; 19. Heaven and earth, an awkward history; 20. Science looks both ways; 21. Are you an animal?; 22. Problems about parsimony; 23. Denying animal consciousness; 24. Beasts versus the biosphere?; 25. Some practical dilemmas; 26. Problems of living with otherness; 27. Changing ideas of wildness; Notes; Index"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","With a new Introduction by the author'An elegant and sane little book. - The New StatesmanMyths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings as machines, which originates in the seventeenth century, is a today a "]
[{"$nulls":4},"potent force. Far from being the opposite of science, however, Midgley argues that myth is a central part of it. Myths are neither lies nor mere stories bu"]