Earthy realism : the meaning of Gaia / / edited Mary Midgley

• Pubblicazione: Exeter, UK ; ; Charlottesville. VA, : Imprint Academic, c2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (142 p.)
• Disciplina: 304.2
• Soggetto topico: Biology - Philosophy; Gaia hypothesis; Nature - Effect of human beings on; Religion and science
• Altri autori: MidgleyMary <1919->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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...
• Titolo autorizzato: Earthy realism
• ISBN: 1-283-68978-2; 1-84540-385-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820049603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Societas (Imprint Academic (Firm)) ; ; v. 30.