Consilience (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Edward O. Wilson
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Work: Science
- Genres: Nonfiction, Science and technology
- Subjects: Culture, Science or scientists, Creative process, Enlightenment, Learning or scholarship, Mathematics or mathematicians, Biology or biologists, Thought or thinking
The goal of Enlightenment thinkers from Francis Bacon to the Marquis de Condorcet was to free the human mind from superstition and error by basing all inquiry and knowledge on a sound empirical, rational basis. That dream ended with the Romantic rebellion and its reliance on emotion and has since been complicated by the knowledge explosion and the fragmentation of academic specialties.
In CONSILIENCE: THE UNITY OF KNOWLEDGE, Edward O. Wilson attempts to resurrect the Enlightenment dream of unifying all knowledge (consilience) and argues that such a goal is not only attainable...
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