Full name: Life Is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition

Author: Wendell Berry Year: 2000 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Philosophy, Essays, Science, Religion Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781582431413 1582431418

"[A] scathing assessment...Berry shows that Wilson's much-celebrated, controversial pleas in Consilience to unify all branches of knowledge is nothing more than a fatuous subordination of religion, art, and everything else that is good to science...Berry is one of the most perceptive critics of American society writing today." --Lauren F. Winner, Washington Post Book World "I am tempted to say he understands [Consilience] better than Wilson himself...A new emancipation proclamation in which he speaks again and again about how to defy the tyranny of scientific materialism" ---Colin C. Campbell, Christian Science Monitor "Berry takes a wrecking ball to E. O. Wilson's Consilience, reducing its smug assumptions regarding the fusion of science, art, and religion to so much rubble. --Kirkus Reviews In Life Is a Miracle, the devotion of science to the quantitative and reductionist world is measured against the mysterious, qualitative suggestions of religion and art. Berry sees life as the collision of these separate forces, but without all three in the mix we are left at sea in the world. Similar books: The Star Thrower by Loren Eiseley The Night Is Large by Martin Gardner The Givenness of Things by Marilynne Robinson Dance for Two by Alan Lightman On the Pleasure of Hating by William Hazlitt The Death of Adam by Marilynne Robinson What Are We Doing Here? by Marilynne Robinson The Abundance by Annie Dillard For the Time Being by Annie Dillard The Night Country by Loren Eiseley The Unexpected Universe by Loren Eiseley Upstream by Mary Oliver Absence of Mind by Marilynne Robinson Essays by Michel de Montaigne A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit The Gift of Good Land by Wendell Berry Another Turn of the Crank by Wendell Berry The Unsettling of America by Wendell Berry Einstein's God by Krista Tippett The Portable Atheist by Christopher Hitchens