Mary Midgley

Science and Poetry

by Mary Midgley

Crude materialism, reduction of mind to body, extreme individualism. All products of a 17th century scientific inheritance which looks at the parts of our existence at the expense of the whole.

Cutting through...

Wisdom, Information and Wonder: What is Knowledge For?

by Mary Midgley

In this book one of Britain's leading philosophers tackles a question at the root of our civilisation: What is knowledge for? Midgley rejects the fragmentary and specialized way in which information is conveyed...

Earthy Realism: The Meaning of Gaia

by Mary Midgley

GAIA, named after the ancient Greek mother-goddess, is the notion that the Earth and the life on it form an active, self-maintaining whole. By its use of personification it attacks the view that the physical...

The Myths We Live By

by Mary Midgley

With a new Introduction by the author

'An elegant and sane little book. - The New Statesman

Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of...