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1 online resource |
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| 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. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| 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. |
| Access |
Open Access EbpS |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Myth -- Social aspects -- History.
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Civilization, Modern -- Philosophy.
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Folklore, myths & legends.
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History of Western philosophy.
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Philosophy.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Civilization, Modern -- Philosophy.
(OCoLC)fst00863096
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Myth. (OCoLC)fst01031678
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Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01060777
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Symbolism. (OCoLC)fst01140749
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Mythen.
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Symbolen.
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| Indexed Term |
Physical, science, richard, dawkins, social, contract, jane, goodall, wild, boar |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Myths we live by. London ; New York : Routledge, 2003 0415309069 (DLC) 2002037168 |
| ISBN |
9781134392520 (electronic book) |
| Standard No. |
10.4324/9780203480922 doi |
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