In this new work Michel Serres, France's foremost philosopher of science, explores how traditional images of angels in art and legend foretell the preoccupations of modern life. Divided, as between Heaven and Hell, into First and Third Worlds, our societies search for ways to make contact, both by means of the most basic interpersonal relations and high-tech communications. The...(展开全部)

What is the role of scientists in society? What should we think when they talk about more than just science? Mary Midgley discusses the high spiritual ambitions which tend to gather around the notion of science.

This book offers an integrated critical account of the career of myth in modernity. It takes as its starting point some crucial moments in the eighteenth-century reinvention of the concept and then follows the major branches of theorising as they appear in the work of theologians, philosophers, literary artists, political thinkers, folklorists, anthropologists, psychologists, a...(展开全部)

For some, automation will usher in a labor-free utopia; for others, it signals a disastrous age-to-come. Yet whether seen as dream or nightmare, automation, argues Munn, is ultimately a fable that rests on a set of triple fictions. There is the myth of full autonomy, claiming that machines will take over production and supplant humans. But far from being self-acting, technical ...(展开全部)

"In the threatening situation of the world today, when people are beginning to see that everything is at stake, the projection-creating fantasy soars beyond the realm of earthly organizations and powers into the heavens, into interstellar space, where the rulers of human fate, the gods, once had their abode in the planets.... Even people who would never have thought that a re...(展开全部)

Written in the late 1950s at the height of popular fascination with UFO's, Flying Saucers is the great psychologist's brilliantly prescient meditation on the phenomenon that gripped the world. A self-confessed sceptic in such matters, Jung was nevertheless intrigued, not so much by their reality or unreality, but by their psychic aspect. He saw flying saucers as a modern myth i...(展开全部)

This brilliant, readable synthesis of the history of mythology and the function it serves to humanity is the launch title of the groundbreaking publishing event, The Myths. "Human beings have always been mythmakers." So begins Karen Armstrong’s concise yet compelling investigation into myth: what it is, how it has evolved, and why we still so desperately need it. She takes...(展开全部)

珍妮弗·霍曼斯（Jennifer Homans），哥伦比亚大学文学学士、纽约大学现代欧洲史博士。早年是一位专业芭蕾舞演员，曾在北卡罗莱纳州艺术学院、美国芭蕾舞剧院及美国芭蕾舞学校学习，在芝加哥抒情歌剧院芭蕾舞团、旧金山芭蕾舞团和太平洋西北芭蕾舞团表演。目前她是一位卓越的舞蹈艺术与文化学者，为《纽约时报》《国际先驱论坛报》《纽约书评》和《澳大利亚人报》撰稿，还是《新共和》杂志的舞蹈评论家。

珍妮弗·霍曼斯（Jennifer Homans），哥伦比亚大学文学学士、纽约大学现代欧洲史博士。早年是一位专业芭蕾舞演员，曾在北卡罗莱纳州艺术学院、美国芭蕾舞剧院及美国芭蕾舞学校学习，在芝加哥抒情歌剧院芭蕾舞团、旧金山芭蕾舞团和太平洋西北芭蕾舞团表演。目前她是一位卓越的舞蹈艺术与文化学者，为《纽约时报》《国际先驱论坛报》《纽约书评》和《澳大利亚人报》撰稿，还是《新共和》杂志的舞蹈评论家。