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Title: Absence of Mind
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self
Author: Marilynne Robinson
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0300171471
EAN: 9780300171471
ISBN: 9780300171471
Publisher: Yale University Press
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: Medicine, Society & Culture
Release Date: 28/06/2011
Description: One of our best contemporary writers explores the tension between science and religion and reveals how our concept of mind determines how we understand and value human nature and human civilization
 
“These impassioned pages require and reward very close attention.”—Michael Dirda, Washington Post
 
In this ambitious book, acclaimed writer Marilynne Robinson applies her astute intellect to some of the most vexing topics in the history of human thought—science, religion, and consciousness. Crafted with the same care and insight as her award-winning novels, Absence of Mind challenges postmodern atheists who crusade against religion under the banner of science. In Robinson’s view, scientific reasoning does not denote a sense of logical infallibility, as thinkers like Richard Dawkins might suggest. Instead, in its purest form, science represents a search for answers. It engages the problem of knowledge, an aspect of the mystery of consciousness, rather than providing a simple and final model of reality.
 
By defending the importance of individual reflection, Robinson celebrates the power and variety of human consciousness in the tradition of William James. She explores the nature of subjectivity and considers the culture in which Sigmund Freud was situated and its influence on his model of self and civilization. Through keen interpretations of language, emotion, science, and poetry, Absence of Mind restores human consciousness to its central place in the religion-science debate.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 197mm
Item Length: 127mm
Item Weight: 204g
Book Series: Terry Lectures
Release Year: 2011

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