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Publication
Washington, D.C. : Counterpoint, c2000.
Description
"In Life is a Miracle, Wendell Berry urges us to begin a "conversation out of school." Believing we are on a course of arrogant and dangerous behavior in science and other intellectual disciplines, this proclamation against modern superstition recommends a shift in priorities and goals. Berry observes, "it is clearly bad for the sciences and the arts to be divided into 'two cultures.' It is bad for scientists to be working without a sense of obligation to cultural tradition. It is bad for artists and scholars in the humanities to be working without a sense of obligation to the world beyond the artifacts of culture." They must be the subjects of one complex conversation."--BOOK JACKET.
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In this book Berry takes on the scientific establishment in its reductionist view of life. For Berry, life as a miracle means that there are some thing that cannot be put under a microscope and studied--nor should they be. Anyone reading The Selfish Gene owes it to themselves to be at least
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familiar with the arguments Berry makes here. Par fo the course, Berry tweaks the establishment in its funny bone, but also some other, more vulnerable places. Show Less
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Original publication date
2000
Physical description
153 p.; 22 cm
ISBN
1582430586 / 9781582430584