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Paperback Insight-Imagination: The Emancipation of Thought and the Modern World Book

ISBN: 1597311170

ISBN13: 9781597311175

Insight-Imagination: The Emancipation of Thought and the Modern World

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Sloan argues that a fundamental transformation of our ideas about knowing, our selves, and our world is not only possible, but necessary. The key to this transformation lies in an understanding of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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Brilliant Commentary on Science and Culture

This book, ostensibly a book about education, is much more than that. Sloan has written a superb critique of the western mind's fascination with the scientific world-view, and the belittling consequences that this fascination has had upon the human soul. It responds brilliantly both to the forces of fundamentalism and the forces of atheism. Written with a rare combination of elegance and clarity, it is a book that can open minds and hearts to a much deeper understanding of our civilization.

Transforming

A good book is one that has interesting useful information, a very good book gives you principles to apply to an analysis of phenomena, but a great book includes the latter but transforms the framework of peceptions so that you never look at things in the same way again.This is a great book.
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