Life Is a Miracle
An Essay Against Modern Superstition
$26.73
- Paperback
168 pages
- Release Date
19 April 2001
Summary
” 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 PostIn 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.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781582431413 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1582431418 |
| Author: | Wendell Berry |
| Publisher: | Counterpoint |
| Imprint: | Counterpoint |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 168 |
| Release Date: | 19 April 2001 |
| Weight: | 180g |
| Dimensions: | 127mm x 203mm |
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Critics Review
“One of America’s most respected and celebrated writers provides a thought-provoking analysis of, and a concise rebuttal of, E. O. Wilson’s Consilience. “[A] scathing assessmentBerry 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 scienceBerry is one of the most perceptive critics of American society writing today.”-Lauren F. Winner, Washington Post Book World “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.”-Colin C. Campbell, Christian Science Monitor “Berry takes a wrecking ball to E. O. Wilson’s Consilience, reducing its smug assumptions regarding the fusion of science, art, and religion to so much rubble.”-Kirkus Reviews”
Wendell Berry
WENDELL BERRY (August 5, 1934 - August 31, 2026), was an essayist, novelist, and poet. During his life, he was honored with the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the John Hay Award of the Orion Society, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, among other distinctions. In 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama, and in 2016, he was the recipient of the Ivan Sandrof Life Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle. Berry lived with his wife, Tanya Berry, on their farm in Henry County, Kentucky.
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