The myths we live by / / Mary Midgley

• Autore: Midgley Mary <1919-, >
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (203 p.)
• Disciplina: 191
• Soggetto topico: Myth; Symbolism; Philosophy
• Classificazione: 08.32
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-184) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The myths we live by
• ISBN: 1-134-39252-4; 1-134-39253-2; 1-280-04707-0; 9786610047079; 0-203-48092-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910348227203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II