One of America's most respected and celebrated writers provides a thought-provoking analysis of, and a concise rebuttal of, E. O. Wilson's Consilience.
"[A] scathing assessmentBerry shows that Wilson's much-celebrated, controversial pleas in Consilience to unify all branches of knowledge is nothing more than a fatuous subordination of religion, art, and everything else that is good to scienceBerry is one of the most perceptive critics of American society writing today. "-Lauren F. Winner, Washington Post Book World"I am tempted to say he understands [Consilience] better than Wilson himselfA new emancipation proclamation in which he speaks again and again about how to defy the tyranny of scientific materialism.
"-Colin C. Campbell, Christian Science Monitor"Berry takes a wrecking ball to E. O.
Wilson's Consilience, reducing its smug assumptions regarding the fusion of science, art, and religion to so much rubble. "-Kirkus ReviewsIn Life Is a Miracle, the devotion of science to the quantitative and reductionist world is measured against the mysterious, qualitative suggestions of religion and art.;Berry sees life as the collision of these separate forces, but without all three in the mix we are left at sea in the world.
| ISBN: | 9781582431413 |
| Publication date: | 19th April 2001 |
| Author: | Wendell Berry |
| Publisher: | Counterpoint Press an imprint of Penguin Random House Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 176 pages |
| Genres: |
Philosophy |
One of America's most respected and celebrated writers provides a thought-provoking analysis of, and a concise rebuttal of, E. O.
Life Is a Miracle features in the following genres: Philosophy
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Life Is a Miracle was written by Wendell Berry and published by Counterpoint Press an imprint of Penguin Random House Group
Life Is a Miracle has 176 pages