Book Description
Examining the nature of myth-making and its surprising appearance in popular science writing.
Author : Gregory Allen Schrempp
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 16,68 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0773539891
Examining the nature of myth-making and its surprising appearance in popular science writing.
Author : Stanislav Grof
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 23,63 MB
Release : 1984-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780873958493
A critical revaluation of ancient spiritual systems long ignored or rejected because of their assumed incompatibility with science. Here are Swami Muktananda on the mind, Swami Prajnananda on Karma, Swami Kripananda on the Kundalini, Joseph Chilton Pearce on spiritual development, Jack Kornfield on Buddhism for Americans, Claudio Naranjo on meditation, and much more.
Author : Terry Marks-Tarlow
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 43,98 MB
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004448438
Mythic Imagination Today is an illustrated guide to the interpenetration of mythology and science throughout the ages. This monograph brings alive our collective need for story as a guide to the rules, roles, and relationships of everyday life.
Author : Denis O Lamoureux
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 10,41 MB
Release : 2020-08-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781951252052
Author : Dick Teresi
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 30,55 MB
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 143912860X
*A New York Times Notable Book* Boldly challenging conventional wisdom, acclaimed science writer and Omni magazine cofounder Dick Teresi traces the origins of contemporary science back to their ancient roots in this eye-opening and landmark work. This innovative history proves once and for all that the roots of modern science were established centuries, and in some instances millennia, before the births of Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton. In this enlightening, entertaining, and important book, Teresi describes many discoveries from all over the non-Western world—Sumeria, Babylon, Egypt, India, China, Africa, Arab nations, the Americas, and the Pacific islands—that equaled and often surpassed Greek and European learning in the fields of mathematics, astronomy, cosmology, physics, geology, chemistry, and technology. The first extensive and authoritative multicultural history of science written for a popular audience, Lost Discoveries fills a critical void in our scientific, cultural, and intellectual history and is destined to become a classic in its field.
Author : Philip Ball
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 44,89 MB
Release : 2022-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226823849
With The Modern Myths, brilliant science communicator Philip Ball spins a new yarn. From novels and comic books to B-movies, it is an epic exploration of literature, new media and technology, the nature of storytelling, and the making and meaning of our most important tales. Myths are usually seen as stories from the depths of time—fun and fantastical, but no longer believed by anyone. Yet, as Philip Ball shows, we are still writing them—and still living them—today. From Robinson Crusoe and Frankenstein to Batman, many stories written in the past few centuries are commonly, perhaps glibly, called “modern myths.” But Ball argues that we should take that idea seriously. Our stories of Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Sherlock Holmes are doing the kind of cultural work that the ancient myths once did. Through the medium of narratives that all of us know in their basic outline and which have no clear moral or resolution, these modern myths explore some of our deepest fears, dreams, and anxieties. We keep returning to these tales, reinventing them endlessly for new uses. But what are they really about, and why do we need them? What myths are still taking shape today? And what makes a story become a modern myth? In The Modern Myths, Ball takes us on a wide-ranging tour of our collective imagination, asking what some of its most popular stories reveal about the nature of being human in the modern age.
Author : Adrienne Mayor
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,46 MB
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0691202265
Traces the story of how ancient cultures envisioned artificial life, automata, self-moving devices and human enhancements, sharing insights into how the mythologies of the past related to and shaped ancient machine innovations.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 34,5 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Cosmology
ISBN :
Author : Gregory Schrempp
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,68 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780996635509
We often assume that science and myth stand in opposition, but the rhetoric of contemporary popular science and related genres tells a different story about what contemporary readers really want from science. This book shows how writers such as Malcolm Gladwell and Michael Pollan successfully fuse science and myth to offer compelling narratives about how we can improve our understanding of ourselves and our world.
Author : Elisabeth Wåghäll Nivre
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 46,92 MB
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 144387891X
In June 2012, scholars from a number of disciplines and countries gathered in Stockholm to discuss the representation of ancient mythology in Renaissance Europe. This symposium was an opportunity for the participants to cross disciplinary borders and to problematize a well-researched field. The aim was to move beyond a view of mythology as mere propaganda in order to promote an understanding of ancient tales and fables as contemporary means to explain and comprehend the Early Modern world. W ...