Life Is a Miracle

An Essay Against Modern Superstition

Wendell Berry

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English

Counterpoint
19 April 2001

Cultural studies; Philosophy of science

"" A

scathing assessment . . . Berry shows that Wilson's much-celebrated, controversial pleas in Consilience to unify all branches of knowledge is nothing more than a fatuous subordination of religion, art, and everything else that is good to science . . . Berry is one of the most perceptive critics of American society writing today."" -The Washington Post

""I am tempted to say he understands

Consilience

better than Wilson himself . . . A new emancipation proclamation in which he speaks again and again about how to defy the tyranny of scientific materialism.""-The Christian Science Monitor

In Life Is a Miracle, the devotion of science to the quantitative and reductionist world is measured against the mysterious, qualitative suggestions of religion and art. Berry sees life as the collision of these separate forces, but without all three in the mix we are left at sea in the world.

By: Wendell Berry
Imprint: Counterpoint
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 10mm
Weight: 156g
ISBN: 9781582431413
ISBN 10: 1582431418
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 19 April 2001
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Wendell Berry is the author of fifty books of poetry, fiction, and essays. He was recently awarded the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement by the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Louis Bromfield Society Award. For over forty years he has lived and farmed with his wife, Tanya, in Kentucky.

Reviews for Life Is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition

"""One of America's most respected and celebrated writers provides a thought-provoking analysis of, and a concise rebuttal of, E. O. Wilson's Consilience. ""[A] scathing assessmentBerry shows that Wilson's much-celebrated, controversial pleas in Consilience to unify all branches of knowledge is nothing more than a fatuous subordination of religion, art, and everything else that is good to scienceBerry is one of the most perceptive critics of American society writing today.""-Lauren F. Winner, Washington Post Book World ""I am tempted to say he understands [Consilience] better than Wilson himself A new emancipation proclamation in which he speaks again and again about how to defy the tyranny of scientific materialism.""-Colin C. Campbell, Christian Science Monitor ""Berry takes a wrecking ball to E. O. Wilson's Consilience, reducing its smug assumptions regarding the fusion of science, art, and religion to so much rubble.""-Kirkus Reviews"""