Earthy Realism

The Meaning of Gaia

Buch | Softcover

120 Seiten

2007
Imprint Academic (Verlag)
978-1-84540-080-4 (ISBN)

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GAIA, named after the ancient Greek mother-goddess, is the notion that the Earth and the life on it form an active, self-maintaining whole. With global warming now an accepted fact, the lessons of GAIA have never been more relevant and urgent.

GAIA, named after the ancient Greek mother-goddess, is the notion that the Earth and the life on it form an active, self-maintaining whole. By its use of personification it attacks the view that the physical world is inert and lifeless. It has a scientific side, as shown by the new university departments of earth science which bring biology and geology together to study the continuity of the cycle. It also has a visionary or spiritual aspect. What the contributors to this book believe is needed is to bring these two angles together. With global warming now an accepted fact, the lessons of GAIA have never been more relevant and urgent.

Mary Midgley is a philosopher with an interest in relations between humans and the rest of nature (especially animals), in the sources of morality, and in the tendency of 'scientism' to become a religion. She was senior lecturer in philosophy at Newcastle University and is the author of many books, among them The Myths We Live By (2003).

Erscheint lt. Verlag	22.3.2007
Reihe/Serie	Societas
Vorwort	James Lovelock
Verlagsort	Exeter
Sprache	englisch
Maße	134 x 205 mm
Gewicht	200 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	1-84540-080-1 / 1845400801
ISBN-13	978-1-84540-080-4 / 9781845400804
Zustand	Neuware