" 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 Post "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."- The Christian Science Monitor In Life Is a Miracle , the devotion of science to the quantitative and reductionist world is measured against the mysterious, qualitative suggestions of religion and art. Berry sees life as the collision of these separate forces, but without all three in the mix we are left at sea in the world.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Counterpoint Press
ISBN-10
1582431418
ISBN-13
9781582431413
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1817086
Product Key Features
Book Title
Life Is a Miracle : an Essay Against Modern Superstition
Author
Wendell Berry
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Folklore & Mythology, General, Essays
Publication Year
2001
Genre
Religion, Literary Collections, Social Science, Philosophy