Life Is a Miracle
An Essay Against Modern Superstition
$34.10
- Paperback
168 pages
- Release Date
19 April 2001
Summary
” 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 PostIn Life Is a Miracle, the devotion of science to the quantitative and reductionist world is measured against the mysterious, qualitative suggestions…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781582431413 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1582431418 |
| Author: | Wendell Berry |
| Publisher: | Counterpoint |
| Imprint: | Counterpoint |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 168 |
| Release Date: | 19 April 2001 |
| Weight: | 180g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 127mm |
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Critics Review
“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 himself A 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 Reviews”
About The Author
Wendell Berry
WENDELL BERRY is the author of fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He was recently awarded the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Louis Bromfield Society Award. For over forty years he has lived and farmed with his wife, Tanya, in Kentucky.
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