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Imaginary Landscape: Making Worlds of Myth and Science
In a demythologized world, William Thompson finds that the power of myth is ironically being restored at the leading edge of science. This book surveys the present, from Post-Modern theory to a science encompassing Chaos theory and the Gaia hypothesis, and finds in it the threads out of which a future conceptual landscape might be woven.
Paperback, 198 pages
Published
October 15th 1990
by Palgrave Macmillan
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This guy sounds like a fruitcake to begin with, but I went along with it and eventually found that he linked myth and science--or knowledge of the natural--in a very interesting and unusual way. If you are at all interested in myth/folklore and biology I'd recommended this book highly.
A wonderful book that teaches us how to squeeze the lore and symbolism out of fairy tales. Uses Rapunzel as a case study.
Thompson takes you on an almost hallucinogenic trip into the human imagination.
This got me through and/or made me leave art school.
this one was a bit over my head...
This book is superb - GAIA can be grokked and lived with harmoniously by us crazy humans
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