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The myths we live by / / Mary Midgley ; with a new foreword by the author
| The myths we live by / / Mary Midgley ; with a new foreword by the author |
| Autore | Midgley Mary <1919-2018, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
| Disciplina | 201/.3 |
| Collana | Routledge classics |
| Soggetto topico |
Myth - Social aspects - History
Civilization, Modern - Philosophy |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-283-10375-3
9786613103758 1-136-80753-5 0-203-82832-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456973503321 |
Midgley Mary <1919-2018, >
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| Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The myths we live by / / Mary Midgley ; with a new foreword by the author
| The myths we live by / / Mary Midgley ; with a new foreword by the author |
| Autore | Midgley Mary <1919-, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
| Disciplina | 201/.3 |
| Collana | Routledge classics |
| Soggetto topico |
Myth - Social aspects - History
Civilization, Modern - Philosophy |
| ISBN |
1-136-80752-7
1-283-10375-3 9786613103758 1-136-80753-5 0-203-82832-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781392603321 |
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Midgley Mary <1919-, >
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| Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The myths we live by / / Mary Midgley ; with a new foreword by the author
| The myths we live by / / Mary Midgley ; with a new foreword by the author |
| Autore | Midgley Mary <1919-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
| Disciplina | 201/.3 |
| Collana | Routledge classics |
| Soggetto topico |
Myth - Social aspects - History
Civilization, Modern - Philosophy |
| ISBN |
1-136-80752-7
1-283-10375-3 9786613103758 1-136-80753-5 0-203-82832-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808076003321 |
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Midgley Mary <1919->
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| Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Quest for a Suitable Past : Myth and Memory in Central and Eastern Europe / / edited by Claudia-Florentina Dobre and Cristian Emilian Ghita
| Quest for a Suitable Past : Myth and Memory in Central and Eastern Europe / / edited by Claudia-Florentina Dobre and Cristian Emilian Ghita |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Central European University Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (pages cm) |
| Disciplina | 943 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
GhitaCristian Emilian
DobreClaudia-Florentina |
| Soggetto topico |
Post-communism - Social aspects - History
Communism - Social aspects - History Memory - Political aspects - History Memory - Social aspects - History Myth - Political aspects - History Myth - Social aspects - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 963-386-138-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction / Claudia-Florentina Dobre -- An obscure object of desire : the myth of Alba Iulia and its social functions, 1918-1940 / Gábor Egry -- Croatia between the myths of the nation-state and of the common European past / Neven Budak -- Deconstructing the myth of the "wicked German" in northern and western parts of Poland : local approaches to cultural heritage / Izabela Skórzynska and Anna Wachowiak -- Mythologizing the biographies of Romanian underground communists : the case study of Miron Constantinescu / Stefan Bosomitu -- Women in the Communist Party : debunking a (post-)communist mythology / Luciana-Marioara Jinga -- Avatars of the social imaginary : myths about Romanian communism after 1989 / Claudia-Florentina Dobre -- Post-communist politics of memory and the new regime of historiography : recent controversies on the memory of the "Forty-five years of the communist yoke" and the "Myth of Batak" / Liliana Deyanova -- The phenomenon of "parahistory" in post-communist Bulgaria : old theories and new myths on proto-Bulgarians / Alexander Nikolov. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910494650003321 |
| New York : , : Central European University Press, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Quest for a Suitable Past : Myth and Memory in Central and Eastern Europe / / edited by Claudia-Florentina Dobre and Cristian Emilian Ghita
| Quest for a Suitable Past : Myth and Memory in Central and Eastern Europe / / edited by Claudia-Florentina Dobre and Cristian Emilian Ghita |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Central European University Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (pages cm) |
| Disciplina | 943 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
GhitaCristian Emilian
DobreClaudia-Florentina |
| Soggetto topico |
Post-communism - Social aspects - History
Communism - Social aspects - History Memory - Political aspects - History Memory - Social aspects - History Myth - Political aspects - History Myth - Social aspects - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| Soggetto non controllato | Communism, Central and Eastern Europe, Historiography, Memory politics, Postcommunism |
| ISBN | 963-386-138-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction / Claudia-Florentina Dobre -- An obscure object of desire : the myth of Alba Iulia and its social functions, 1918-1940 / Gábor Egry -- Croatia between the myths of the nation-state and of the common European past / Neven Budak -- Deconstructing the myth of the "wicked German" in northern and western parts of Poland : local approaches to cultural heritage / Izabela Skórzynska and Anna Wachowiak -- Mythologizing the biographies of Romanian underground communists : the case study of Miron Constantinescu / Stefan Bosomitu -- Women in the Communist Party : debunking a (post-)communist mythology / Luciana-Marioara Jinga -- Avatars of the social imaginary : myths about Romanian communism after 1989 / Claudia-Florentina Dobre -- Post-communist politics of memory and the new regime of historiography : recent controversies on the memory of the "Forty-five years of the communist yoke" and the "Myth of Batak" / Liliana Deyanova -- The phenomenon of "parahistory" in post-communist Bulgaria : old theories and new myths on proto-Bulgarians / Alexander Nikolov. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795050303321 |
| New York : , : Central European University Press, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Quest for a Suitable Past : Myth and Memory in Central and Eastern Europe / / edited by Claudia-Florentina Dobre and Cristian Emilian Ghita
| Quest for a Suitable Past : Myth and Memory in Central and Eastern Europe / / edited by Claudia-Florentina Dobre and Cristian Emilian Ghita |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Central European University Press, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (pages cm) |
| Disciplina | 943 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
GhitaCristian Emilian
DobreClaudia-Florentina |
| Soggetto topico |
Post-communism - Social aspects - History
Communism - Social aspects - History Memory - Political aspects - History Memory - Social aspects - History Myth - Political aspects - History Myth - Social aspects - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| Soggetto non controllato | Communism, Central and Eastern Europe, Historiography, Memory politics, Postcommunism |
| ISBN | 963-386-138-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction / Claudia-Florentina Dobre -- An obscure object of desire : the myth of Alba Iulia and its social functions, 1918-1940 / Gábor Egry -- Croatia between the myths of the nation-state and of the common European past / Neven Budak -- Deconstructing the myth of the "wicked German" in northern and western parts of Poland : local approaches to cultural heritage / Izabela Skórzynska and Anna Wachowiak -- Mythologizing the biographies of Romanian underground communists : the case study of Miron Constantinescu / Stefan Bosomitu -- Women in the Communist Party : debunking a (post-)communist mythology / Luciana-Marioara Jinga -- Avatars of the social imaginary : myths about Romanian communism after 1989 / Claudia-Florentina Dobre -- Post-communist politics of memory and the new regime of historiography : recent controversies on the memory of the "Forty-five years of the communist yoke" and the "Myth of Batak" / Liliana Deyanova -- The phenomenon of "parahistory" in post-communist Bulgaria : old theories and new myths on proto-Bulgarians / Alexander Nikolov. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810012103321 |
| New York : , : Central European University Press, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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