Midgley, Mary,  1919-2018. <br/><br/>
The myths we live by / 
Mary Midgley. 
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<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-184) and index. 
<br/><br/>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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<br/><br/> Mary Midgley argues in her powerful new book that far from being the opposite of science, myth is a central part of it. In brilliant prose, she claims that myths are neither lies nor mere stories but a network of powerful symbols that suggest particular ways of interpreting the world. 
<br/><br/><br/>English. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781134392520 1134392524 1134392532 9781134392537 1280047070 9781280047077 9786610047079 6610047073 0203480929 9780203480922 9780415309066 0415309069 9780415340779 0415340772 9781134392483 1134392486 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.4324/9780203480922  doi 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2020690817 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA341900  bnb GBA3Z4619  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Myth--Social aspects--History.<br/>Civilization, Modern--Philosophy.<br/>Folklore, myths & legends.<br/>History of Western philosophy.<br/>Philosophy.<br/>PHILOSOPHY--History & Surveys--Modern.<br/>Civilization, Modern--Philosophy.<br/>Myth.<br/>Philosophy.<br/>Symbolism.<br/>Mythen.<br/>Symbolen.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Physical, science, richard, dawkins, social, contract, jane, goodall, wild, boar 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.<br/>Electronic books.<br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BL304 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>201/.3