| Physical description |
1 online resource |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-184) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Language notes |
English. |
| Subject |
Myth -- Social aspects -- History.
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Civilization, Modern -- Philosophy.
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Physical, science, richard, dawkins, social, contract, jane, goodall, wild, boar |
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Electronic books. |
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History |
| ISBN |
9781134392520 (ebook) |
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1134392524 |
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1134392532 |
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9781134392537 |
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1280047070 |
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9781280047077 |
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9786610047079 |
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6610047073 |
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0203480929 |
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9780203480922 |
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9780415309066 |
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0415309069 |
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9780415340779 |
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0415340772 |
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9781134392483 |
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1134392486 |
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0415309069 |
| Standard Number |
10.4324/9780203480922 |
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