Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
Written by Edward O. Wilson
Narrated by Jonathan Hogan
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One of our greatest living scientists—and the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for On Human Nature and The Ants—gives us a work of visionary importance that may be the crowning achievement of his career. In Consilience (a word that originally meant "jumping together"), Edward O. Wilson renews the Enlightenment's search for a unified theory of knowledge in disciplines that range from physics to biology, the social sciences and the humanities.
Using the natural sciences as his model, Wilson forges dramatic links between fields. He explores the chemistry of the mind and the genetic bases of culture. He postulates the biological principles underlying works of art from cave-drawings to Lolita. Presenting the latest findings in prose of wonderful clarity and oratorical eloquence, and synthesizing it into a dazzling whole, Consilience is science in the path-clearing traditions of Newton, Einstein, and Richard Feynman.
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Reviews for Consilience
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Takes 15 hours to tell me an argument I kinda assumed from the start, that natural sciences and social sciences can't be split off. Meh. You don't even learn anything from the other 14 hours, where he's just rambling on.