Human Nature: Fact and Fiction: Literature, Science and Human Nature

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Robin Headlam Wells, Johnjoe McFadden
A&C Black, 30 трав. 2006 р. - 200 стор.
 

Human Nature: Fact and Fiction brings together a collection of inspiring, thought-provoking and original perspectives on human nature by ten leading writers, scientists and academics.

What do we mean by "human nature"? Is there a genetically determined core of humanity that unites us all as members of a single species? Or is the thing we call human nature a social construct? And how do we explain the mystery of human creativity? Do great writers have an intuitive grasp of what makes human beings tick, or are they merely the mouthpiece of contemporary culture?

It has been claimed that "the greatest enterprise of the mind has always been and always will be the attempted linkage of the sciences and humanities" (Edward O. Wilson). This groundbreaking book marks the beginning of a new dialogue between the two. Rather than focusing on the division between them, it shows that the sciences and humanities have much to learn from each other. Points of disagreement remain. Yet there is in this volume a genuine attempt to bridge the gulf that has traditionally separated the sciences and humanities and to reach a better understanding of what it means to be human.

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The biology of fiction 17
27
Literature science and human nature
40
Literature and evolution
63
one for all and all for one?
82
how the brain can both
103
the role of culture
111
The limits of imagination
128
Human nature or human difference?
147
What science can and cannot tell us about human
164
an answer to
184
Index
194
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Human Nature: Fact and Fiction: Literature, Science and Human Nature
Robin Headlam Wells,Johnjoe McFadden
Обмежений попередній перегляд - 2006

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Robin Headlam Wells is Emeritus Professor of Renaissance Literature at Roehampton University, London. His publications include Elizabethan Mythologies (Cambridge University Press, 1994), Shakespeare on Masculinity (Cambridge University Press, 2000), and Shakespeare's Humanism (Cambridge University Press, 2005). Johnjoe McFadden is Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Surrey.

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НазваHuman Nature: Fact and Fiction: Literature, Science and Human Nature
РедакториRobin Headlam Wells, Johnjoe McFadden
ВидавецьA&C Black, 2006
ISBN0826485456, 9780826485458
Обсяг200 стор.
  
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