Consilience
Subtitle: the unity of knowledge
By: Edward O. Wilson.
Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 367
Subjects: Philosophy; Order (Philosophy); Philosophy and science
Description: "In this new book, the American biologist Edward O. Wilson argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge and the need to search for consilience - the proof that everything in our world is organized in terms of a small number of fundamental natural laws that comprise the principles underlying every branch of learning." "Professor Wilson shows how and why our explosive rise in intellectual mastery of the truths of our universe has its roots in the ancient Greek concept of an intrinsic orderliness that governs our cosmos and the human species - a vision that found its apogee in the Age of Enlightenment, then gradually was lost in the increasing fragmentation and specialization of knowledge in the last two centuries. Drawing on the physical sciences and biology, anthropology, psychology, religion, philosophy, and the arts, Professor Wilson shows why the goals of the original Enlightenment are surging back to life, why they are reappearing on the very frontiers of science and humanistic scholarship, and how they are beginning to sketch themselves as the blueprint of our world as it most profoundly, elegantly, and excitingly is."--Jacket.
Notes: Originally published in hardcover: New York : A. A. Knopf, c1998.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-352) and index.