In a soft cover with maroon titles to spine and front and a colour illustration to front. No dust jacket. 424 pp. The book is in very good condition with just very minor shelf-wear to the extremities of the cover and some sunning of the spine. The binding is tight and the pages clean and unmarked.

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Bibliographic Details

Title: The Essential Mary Midgley
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2005
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0415346428
ISBN 13: 9780415346429
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Feared and admired in equal measure, Mary Midgley has carefully yet profoundly challenged many of the scientific and moral orthodoxies of the twentieth century. The Essential Mary Midgley collects for the first time the very best of this famous philosopher's work, described by the Financial Times as 'common sense philosophy of the highest order'.

This unrivalled introduction to a great philosopher and brilliant writer incorporates carefully selected excerpts from Mary Midgley's bestselling books, including Wickedness, Beast and Man, Science and Poetry, and The Myths We Live By. With a specially written foreword by James Lovelock, this classic text presents a superb and eminently readable insight into questions she has returned to time and again in her renowned sharp prose. This anthology discusses major topics, such as the roots of human nature, reason and imagination, the myths of science and the importance of holism in thinking about science and the environment.

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Mary Midgely (1919-2018)was a moral philosopher and the author of many books, most recently The Myths We Live By.

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