Imaginary Landscape: Making Worlds of Myth and Science

by William Irwin Thompson

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In a demythologized world, William Thompson finds that the power of myth is ironically being restored at the leading edge of science. This book surveys the present, from Post-Modern theory to a science encompassing Chaos theory and the Gaia hypothesis, and finds in it the threads out of which a future conceptual landscape might be woven.… (more)

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Not what I was expecting at all. Thesis statement: fairy tales are deep because they exhibit some sort of deep/unconscious scientific knowledge. Ok, whatever, could be interesting if they then showed evidence that there was actual scientific knowledge in practice in those cultures. Fairy folk represent bacteria? Really? (

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In a demythologized world, William Thompson finds that the power of myth is ironically being restored at the leading edge of science. This book surveys the present, from Post-Modern theory to a science encompassing Chaos theory and the Gaia hypothesis, and finds in it the threads out of which a future conceptual landscape might be woven.

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