Consilience : the unity of knowledge / Edward O. Wilson.

Consilience : the unity of knowledge / Edward O. Wilson.

First edition.

0679450777
9780679450771
067976867X (pbk.)
9780679768678 (pbk.)

New York : Knopf, 1998.

New York : Distributed by Random House

English

332 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

B72 .W54 1998

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Biologist Wilson, considered to be one of the world's greatest living scientists, argues for the fundamental unity of all knowledge, that everything in our world is organized in terms of a small number of fundamental natural laws. Wilson, the pioneer of sociobiology and biodiversity, now once again breaks out of the conventions of current thinking. He shows how and why 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--a vision that found its apogee in the Age of Enlightenment, then gradually was lost in the increasing fragmentation and specialization of knowledge in the last two centuries. Drawing on the physical sciences and biology, anthropology, psychology, religion, philosophy, and the arts, Professor Wilson shows why the goals of the original Enlightenment are reappearing on the frontiers of science and humanistic scholarship.--From publisher description.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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