An edition of Life Is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition (2000)

Life Is a Miracle

An Essay Against Modern Superstition

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An edition of Life Is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition (2000)

Life Is a Miracle

An Essay Against Modern Superstition

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"In Life is a Miracle, Wendell Berry urges us to begin a "conversation out of school." Believing we are on a course of arrogant and dangerous behavior in science and other intellectual disciplines, this proclamation against modern superstition recommends a shift in priorities and goals. Berry observes, "it is clearly bad for the sciences and the arts to be divided into 'two cultures.' It is bad for scientists to be working without a sense of obligation to cultural tradition.

It is bad for artists and scholars in the humanities to be working without a sense of obligation to the world beyond the artifacts of culture." They must be the subjects of one complex conversation."--BOOK JACKET.

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Counterpoint Press
Language
English
Pages
124

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Subjects

Philosophy and science, Philosophy, Leben, Kritik, Reduktionismus, Superstitions, Science, Superstition

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Edward O. Wilson
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Life Is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition
May 15, 2001, Counterpoint
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First Sentence

"THE EXPRESSES dissatisfaction of some scientists with the dangerous oversimplifications of commercialized science has encouraged me to hope that this dissatisfaction will run its full course."

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Library of Congress
B72 .B47 2000, B72 .W54 2000

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Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
124
Dimensions
8.3 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
Weight
10.1 ounces

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OL8787157M
ISBN 10
1582430586
ISBN 13
9781582430584
LCCN
00028249
OCLC/WorldCat
43615710
Library Thing
84366
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55984

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First Sentence

"THE EXPRESSES dissatisfaction of some scientists with the dangerous oversimplifications of commercialized science has encouraged me to hope that this dissatisfaction will run its full course."

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