Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self (The Terry Lectures) - Tapa blanda

Robinson, Marilynne

 
9780300171471: Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self (The Terry Lectures)
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ISBN 10: 0300171471 ISBN 13: 9780300171471
Editorial: Yale University Press, 2011

Sinopsis

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.

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Marilynne Robinson is the author of Gilead, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for fiction; Home, winner of the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction; and Housekeeping, winner of the 1982 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for first fiction. She is also the author of two previous books of nonfiction, Mother Country and The Death of Adam. She teaches at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and lives in Iowa City.

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Editorial
Yale University Press
Año de publicación
2011
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ISBN 10 
0300171471
ISBN 13 
9780300171471
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Número de edición
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Número de páginas
176
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