TY  - BOOK
AU  - Midgley,Mary
TI  - The myths we live by
SN  - 0415340772 (pbk)
U1  - 201.3 23
PY  - 2004///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
KW  - Myth
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - History
KW  - Civilization, Modern
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - 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
ER  -