Life Is a Miracle
Subtitle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition
Edition: Reissue edition
Publisher: Counterpoint Press
Published: May 16, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9781582430584
Subjects: Philosophy Of Science; Philosophy and science; Science; Science/Mathematics; Wilson, Edward Osborne,; Epistemology; Philosophy & Social Aspects; 1929-; Consilience; Philosophy
First sentence: THE EXPRESSES dissatisfaction of some scientists with the dangerous oversimplifications of commercialized science has encouraged me to hope that this dissatisfaction will run its full course.
Description: "In Life is a Miracle, Wendell Berry urges us to begin a "conversation out of school." Believing we are on a course of arrogant and dangerous behavior in science and other intellectual disciplines, this proclamation against modern superstition recommends a shift in priorities and goals. Berry observes, "it is clearly bad for the sciences and the arts to be divided into 'two cultures.' It is bad for scientists to be working without a sense of obligation to cultural tradition.

It is bad for artists and scholars in the humanities to be working without a sense of obligation to the world beyond the artifacts of culture." They must be the subjects of one complex conversation."--BOOK JACKET.