Life Is a Miracle
An Essay Against Modern Superstition
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Word Count
44,000 words, Guess
Page Count
176 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archivelifeismiracleess0000berr
- Internet Archivelifeismiracleess0000berr_r7t0
- ISBN-101582431418
- ISBN-139781582431413
- Goodreads76732
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- LibraryThing84366
- Library of Congress Control Number00028249
- OCLC Control Number47163600
- Better World Books9781582431413
- Open LibraryOL8787180M
Classifications
- LCCB72 .B47 2000
- LCCB72 .B47 2001
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.
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.
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