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Science and Poetry by Mary Midgley, , available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. But for Mary Midgley, science, while undeniably a key element in this quest, can never be the whole story as it cannot truly explain what it means to be human. She asserts her corrective view that without poetry (or literature, or music, or history, even theology) we cannot hope to understand our humanity. Science And Poetry (Routledge Classics)|Mary Midgley, History Of The Bank Of England To |A. M. Andreades, Memoirs Of An Unfit Mother Signed Editio|Anne Robinson, Environmental Problems And Solutions: Greenhouse Effect, Acid Rain, Pollution|T. Veziroglu.

Mary Midgley () is a popular moral philosopher and has been described by The Guardian as "the foremost scourge of scientific pretension in this country." She has recently completed her autobiography, The Owl of Minerva (Routledge, ). Mary Midgley challenges the notion that science is the royal road to understanding. She traces this view right back to ancient Greece and shows how it has come to prevail since the Enlightenment. Instead she recommends Gaia thinking (though not in the New Age sense), recommending seeing ourselves as part of nature and the planet as a living organism. Cutting through myths of scientific omnipotence, Mary Midgley explores how this inheritance has so powerfully shaped the way we are, and the problems it has brought with it. She argues that poetry and the arts can help reconcile these problems, and counteract generations of 'one-eyed specialists', unable and unwilling to look beyond their own scientific or literary sphere.