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Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
Professor Edward O. Wilson
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Description for Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
Paperback. Argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge and the need to search for "consilience": the composition of the principles governing every branch of learning. The author shows how our rise in intellectual mastery is rooted in an ancient Greek concept at its zenith during the Enlightenment. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 25. Weight in Grams: 282.
In this groundbreaking new book, one of the world's greatest living scientists argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge and the need to search for what he calls consilience, the composition of the principles governing every branch of learning. Edward O Wilson, the pioneer of sociobiology and biodiversity, once again breaks out of the conventions of current thinking. He shows how our explosive rise in intellectual mastery of the truths of our universe has its roots in the ancient Greek concept of an intrinsic orderliness that governs our cosmos. It is a vision that found its ... Read more
In this groundbreaking new book, one of the world's greatest living scientists argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge and the need to search for what he calls consilience, the composition of the principles governing every branch of learning. Edward O Wilson, the pioneer of sociobiology and biodiversity, once again breaks out of the conventions of current thinking. He shows how our explosive rise in intellectual mastery of the truths of our universe has its roots in the ancient Greek concept of an intrinsic orderliness that governs our cosmos. It is a vision that found its ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349111124
SKU
V9780349111124
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About Professor Edward O. Wilson
Edward O Wilson is Curator in Entomology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard with which he has been connected since 1953. He has twice won the Pulitzer Prize, for ON HUMAN NATURE and THE ANTS.
Reviews for Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
The first great ecologist, a pioneer in sociobiology and biodiversity...a giant among popularisers of science
Bryan Appleyard, INDEPENDENT
There's a new Darwin. His name is Edward O. Wilson.
Tom Wolfe
Edward O. Wilson seems to me the most important active naturalist we still have with us. It's not for nothing that he is a world expert ... Read more
Bryan Appleyard, INDEPENDENT
There's a new Darwin. His name is Edward O. Wilson.
Tom Wolfe
Edward O. Wilson seems to me the most important active naturalist we still have with us. It's not for nothing that he is a world expert ... Read more