The myths we live by / / Mary Midgley ; with a new foreword by the author

• Autore: Midgley Mary <1919-2018, >
• Pubblicazione: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
• Disciplina: 201/.3
• Soggetto topico: Myth - Social aspects - History; Civilization, Modern - Philosophy
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Originally published: 2004. With new foreword.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ; 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
• 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 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The myths we live by
• ISBN: 1-283-10375-3; 9786613103758; 1-136-80753-5; 0-203-82832-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456973503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge classics.