The Myths We Live By

By:

Midgley, Mary

Contributor(s):

Midgley, Mary

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London Routledge 2004Description: 192pISBN:

0415340772

DDC classification:

O61 M584

Partial contents:

How myths work Our place in the world Progress, science and modernity Thoughts has many forms The aims of reduction Dualistic dilemmas Motives, materialism and megalomania What action is 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 awakward 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

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