| Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition Contributor(s): Berry, Wendell (Author) |
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ISBN: 1582431418 ISBN-13: 9781582431413 Publisher: Counterpoint LLC OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2001 Annotation: In "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 people are left at sea in the world. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects - Philosophy | Epistemology - Science | Essays |
| Dewey: 121 |
| LCCN: 00028249 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.35 lbs) 168 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "[A] scathing assessment . . . Berry 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 science . . . Berry is one of the most perceptive critics of American society writing today." --The Washington Post "I am tempted to say he understands [Consilience] better than Wilson himself . . . A new emancipation proclamation in which he speaks again and again about how to defy the tyranny of scientific materialism."--The Christian Science Monitor In 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. |