By David Midgley,James Lovelock
This unrivalled advent to an exceptional thinker and tremendous author contains conscientiously chosen excerpts from Mary Midgley's bestselling books, together with Wickedness, Beast and Man, Science and Poetry, and The Myths we are living By. With a particularly written foreword by means of James Lovelock, this vintage textual content provides a very good and eminently readable perception into questions she has back to many times in her well known sharp prose. This anthology discusses significant subject matters, akin to the roots of human nature, cause and mind's eye, the myths of technological know-how and the significance of holism in pondering technology and the environment.
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