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Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition
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Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition Paperback - 2001

by Wendell Berry

In "Life Is a Miracle", the devotion of science to the quantitative and reductionist world is measured against the mysterious, qualitative suggestions of religion and art. Berry sees life as the collision of these separate forces, but without all three in the mix people are left at sea in the world.


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"[A] scathing assessment . . . Berry shows that Wilson's much-celebrated, controversial pleas in Consilience to unify all branches of knowledge is nothing more than a fatuous subordination of religion, art, and everything else that is good to science . . . Berry is one of the most perceptive critics of American society writing today." --The Washington Post
"I am tempted to say he understands [Consilience] better than Wilson himself . . . A new emancipation proclamation in which he speaks again and again about how to defy the tyranny of scientific materialism."--The Christian Science Monitor
In Life Is a Miracle, the devotion of science to the quantitative and reductionist world is measured against the mysterious, qualitative suggestions of religion and art. Berry sees life as the collision of these separate forces, but without all three in the mix we are left at sea in the world.

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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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  • Title Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition
  • Author Wendell Berry
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 168
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Counterpoint LLC, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
  • Date May 15, 2001
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781582431413 / 1582431418
  • Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.4 in (20.07 x 12.95 x 1.02 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Philosophy, Philosophy and science
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00028249
  • Dewey Decimal Code 121

About the author

Wendell Berry is the author of fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He was recently awarded the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Louis Bromfield Society Award. For over forty years he has lived and farmed with his wife, Tanya, in Kentucky.
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