The myths we live by / Mary Midgley.
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TextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2004Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 192 pContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 0415340772 (pbk)Subject(s): Myth -- Social aspects -- History | Civilization, Modern -- PhilosophyAdditional physical formats: Print version:: The myths we live byDDC classification: 201.3 Other classification: 08.32 | Item type | Current library | Home library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| JKRC Social Science Complex | JKRC Social Science Complex | 201.3 MID (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Acc.No. C-85 | IDS1069 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-184) and index.
How myths work -- Our place in the world -- Progress, science and modernity -- Thought has many forms -- The aims of reduction -- Dualistic dilemmas -- Motives, materialism and megalomania -- What is action -- Tidying the inner scene : why memes? -- The sleep of reason produces monsters -- Getting rid of the ego -- Cultural evolution? -- Selecting the selectors -- Is reason sex-linked? -- The journey from freedom to desolation -- Biotechnology and the yuk factor -- The new alchemy -- The supernatural engineer -- Heaven and earth, an awkward history -- Science looks both ways -- Are you an animal? -- Problems about parsimony -- Denying animal consciousness -- Beasts versus the biosphere? -- Some practical dilemmas -- Problems of living with otherness -- Changing ideas of wildness.
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