Science and Poetry

MARY MIDGLEY

Routledge

Beast and Man

The Myths We Live By

In this book, Mary Midgely turns a spotlight on the fashionable view that we no longer need or use moral judgements. She shows how the question of whether or not we can make moral judgements must inevitably affect our attitudes to the law and its institut

Can't We Make Moral Judgements?

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Heart and Mind: The Varieties of Moral Experience

Crude materialism, reduction of mind to body, extreme individualism. All products of a 17th century scientific inheritance which looks at the parts of our existence at the expense of the whole. Cutting through myths of scientific omnipotence, Mary Midgley explores how this inheritance has so powerfully shaped the way we are, and the problems it has brought with it. She argues that poetry and the arts can help reconcile these problems, and counteract generations of 'one-eyed specialists', unable and unwilling to look beyond their own scientific or literary sphere. Dawkins, Atkins, Bacon and Descartes all come under fire as Midgely sears through contemporary debate, from Gaia to memes, and organic food to greenhouse gases. After years of unquestioned imperialism, science is finally forced to take a step back and acknowledge the arts.

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Beast and Man: Roots of Human Nature (University Paperbacks) Midgley, Mary

Beast and Man: Roots of Human Nature (University Paperbacks)

Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature

NCROL

Beast and Man: Roots of Human Nature

BRANCH LINE

Gaia: the Next Big Idea

Business & Money

Economics

Demos

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