- Gebundene Ausgabe: 176 Seiten
- Verlag: Yale Univ Pr (1. Juni 2010)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0300145187
- ISBN-13: 978-0300145182
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,6 x 13,2 x 2,3 cm
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- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 211.849 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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"'At a moment in cultural history dominated by the shallow, the superficial, the quick fix, Marilynne Robinson is a miraculous anomaly: a writer who thoughtfully, carefully, and tenaciously explores some of the deepest questions confronting the human species.' Merle Rubin, Los Angeles Times Book Review on Gilead"
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In this ambitious book, acclaimed writer Marilynne Robinson applies her astute intellect to some of the most vexing topics in the history of human thought - science, religion, and consciousness. Crafted with the same care and insight as her award-winning novels, "Absence of Mind" challenges postmodern atheists who crusade against religion under the banner of science. In Robinson's view, scientific reasoning does not denote a sense of logical infallibility, as thinkers like Richard Dawkins might suggest. Instead, in its purest form, science represents a search for answers. It engages the problem of knowledge, an aspect of the mystery of consciousness, rather than providing a simple and final model of reality. By defending the importance of individual reflection, Robinson celebrates the power and variety of human consciousness in the tradition of William James. She explores the nature of subjectivity and considers the culture in which Sigmund Freud was situated and its influence on his model of self and civilization. Through keen interpretations of language, emotion, science, and poetry, "Absence of Mind" restores human consciousness to its central place in the religion-science debate.
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In vier Kapiteln befasst sich Marilyne Robinson mit der Natur des Menschen. Sie fragt, wie selbstloses Verhalten entsteht. Sie thematisiert, was Bewusstsein, Geist und Seele ist, wie sie entstehen und wie sie sich zum Gehirn verhalten. In konzentrierter Sprache setzt sie sich mit den großen Vertretern der Geistesgeschichte, besonders Europas und Nordamerikas, auseinander. Ihre zentrale These ist: Die modernen wissenschaftlichen Erklärungen des Menschen irren sich, insofern ihr Anspruch materialistisch, reduktionistisch und "total" ist. Sie werden dann zu dem, was Robinson "Parawissenschaften" nennt, Fehlformen und Entartungen von Wissenschaft, die in der Proklamation vom "Tod Gottes" und in der Wegerklärung der Person enden. Robinsons engagierte Stellungnahme bezüglich zentraler Fragen der Existenz stellt moderne naturwissenschaftliche Standardtheorien in Frage und lädt zu mehr Nachdenken ein.
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Affirmation of mind
20. April 2010
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In quintessential Robinsonian non-fiction style (intelligent, well-read, affirmative, sarcastic), Marilynne Robinson refutes an atheism which posits itself as scientific. The book is not a vindication of religion or of theology, per se, but rather a rejection of what Robinson calls the "parascientific" nature of writings which seek to deny much of human experience. It is an affirmation of the complexity of the mind and of existence. My least favorite chapter was "The Freudian Self," but it was insightful in its own right. "The Strange History of Altruism" and "Thinking Again" were both very good. Fans of Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett will find something worth considering in this tendentious yet radiant prose.
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Take That, Reverend Paley
11. Mai 2010
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This little volume by an accomplished novelist ("Gilead," "Housekeeping," "Home") is her erudite and intriguing venture into philosophy and metaphysics, taking the Good Housekeeping broom to the likes of Freud and Nietzsche while seeming to be cautiously protective of spirituality in general, Descartes and Jung in particular.
The work, published by Yale Press, consists of four loosely coupled essays, any one of which can stand alone, titled "On Human Nature," "The Strange History of Altruism," "The Freudian Self," and "Thinking Again."
In attempting to find a pithy phrase to convey the thrust of Robinson's work, I am of necessity reduced to oversimplification. Suffice it to say she agrees with the position which I believe has been stated repeatedly and effectively by Professor Seale, that science is only a tool which we use to chip away at the shadows, never an end or a solution in itself.
One of Robinson's paragraphs may replace Mark Twain's account of Tom whitewashing the fence as my favorite ever. From "Thinking Again:"
". . . What is man? One answer on offer is, An organism whose haunting questions perhaps ought not to be meaningful to the organ that generates them, lacking as it is in any means of "solving" them. Another answer might be, It is still too soon to tell. We might be the creature who brings life on this planet to an end, and we might be the creature who awakens to the privileges that inhere in our nature - selfhood, consciousness, even our biologically anomalous craving for "the truth" - and enjoys and enhances them. Mysteriously, neither possibility precludes the other. . . ."
The work, published by Yale Press, consists of four loosely coupled essays, any one of which can stand alone, titled "On Human Nature," "The Strange History of Altruism," "The Freudian Self," and "Thinking Again."
In attempting to find a pithy phrase to convey the thrust of Robinson's work, I am of necessity reduced to oversimplification. Suffice it to say she agrees with the position which I believe has been stated repeatedly and effectively by Professor Seale, that science is only a tool which we use to chip away at the shadows, never an end or a solution in itself.
One of Robinson's paragraphs may replace Mark Twain's account of Tom whitewashing the fence as my favorite ever. From "Thinking Again:"
". . . What is man? One answer on offer is, An organism whose haunting questions perhaps ought not to be meaningful to the organ that generates them, lacking as it is in any means of "solving" them. Another answer might be, It is still too soon to tell. We might be the creature who brings life on this planet to an end, and we might be the creature who awakens to the privileges that inhere in our nature - selfhood, consciousness, even our biologically anomalous craving for "the truth" - and enjoys and enhances them. Mysteriously, neither possibility precludes the other. . . ."
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In Defense of Consciousness
27. Juni 2010
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It could be argued that like the American constitution, Culture relies for it's checks and balances on three branches: science, the humanities, and religion. Unbalanced, religion falters into inquisitions and holy wars; science, into eugenics and bell curves; the humanities, into übermenchen and madmen. As Aristotle's virtues rested in moderation, as Buddhism clings to the middle way, so must Culture find and maintain its equilibrium. At present, however, this equilibrium is disturbed. While hard science transforms matter into miracles, soft science maligns philosophy and religion, transforming the miracle of mind into matter if not dust, banishing the supernatural while highlighting the unnatural--the twentieth century having witnessed the ultimate flourishing of unnatural death to date.
ABSENCE OF MIND: the Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self by Pulitzer prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson provides a thoughtful case helping to restore cultural balance. She coins parascience to describe the theories of "self-declared rationalists" spreading the gospel of "objectivity" to reduce people into objects. The reasoning of her polemic is acute as she vivisects arguments to sweep aside the cultural wonders of consciousness and the human mind. She ridicules "the assumption that humankind is itself fearful, irrational, deluded and self-deceived, excepting, of course these missionaries of enlightenment [the parascientists themselves]." Always brilliant, Robinson is at times ironic, at times laugh-aloud funny. Her wit, intelligence and incisiveness seriously contest the notion that those disguising themselves in the wool of science have any monopoly on reason, logic or truth. At its best, her prose captures the consciousness of self and what it means to be human.
ABSENCE OF MIND is four chapter defense of the human mind: "On Human Nature," exposes and criticizes modernity's theme that the mind, beguiled by evolutionary forces and a paucity of perception, cannot be trusted. " The Strange History of Altruism," questions the tendency to rationalize and spirit away human compassion on the wings of insect models. "The Freudian Self", places Freud's sexually- beleaguered unconscious mind (again, a mind discrediting human thought) in the social context of the hysteria and denial engendered by antisemitic, pre-holocaust Europe. Finally "Thinking Again" argues for the primacy of the "history of human thought" and its "ancient instinct" to ask the "greatest questions," a glory that cannot be reduced or constrained by the inadequate, parochial theories of parascience, a term that deserves to find its way into the common vocabulary of our culture, separating the dregs of ideology from the fine wine of science.
ABSENCE OF MIND: the Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self by Pulitzer prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson provides a thoughtful case helping to restore cultural balance. She coins parascience to describe the theories of "self-declared rationalists" spreading the gospel of "objectivity" to reduce people into objects. The reasoning of her polemic is acute as she vivisects arguments to sweep aside the cultural wonders of consciousness and the human mind. She ridicules "the assumption that humankind is itself fearful, irrational, deluded and self-deceived, excepting, of course these missionaries of enlightenment [the parascientists themselves]." Always brilliant, Robinson is at times ironic, at times laugh-aloud funny. Her wit, intelligence and incisiveness seriously contest the notion that those disguising themselves in the wool of science have any monopoly on reason, logic or truth. At its best, her prose captures the consciousness of self and what it means to be human.
ABSENCE OF MIND is four chapter defense of the human mind: "On Human Nature," exposes and criticizes modernity's theme that the mind, beguiled by evolutionary forces and a paucity of perception, cannot be trusted. " The Strange History of Altruism," questions the tendency to rationalize and spirit away human compassion on the wings of insect models. "The Freudian Self", places Freud's sexually- beleaguered unconscious mind (again, a mind discrediting human thought) in the social context of the hysteria and denial engendered by antisemitic, pre-holocaust Europe. Finally "Thinking Again" argues for the primacy of the "history of human thought" and its "ancient instinct" to ask the "greatest questions," a glory that cannot be reduced or constrained by the inadequate, parochial theories of parascience, a term that deserves to find its way into the common vocabulary of our culture, separating the dregs of ideology from the fine wine of science.
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