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A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
The first collection of essays from renowned scientist and best-selling author Richard Dawkins.
Richard Dawkins's essays are an enthusiastic testament to the power of rigorous, scientific examination, and they span many different corners of his personal and professional life. He revisits the meme, the unit of cultural information that he named and wrote about in his groundbreaking work The Selfish Gene. He makes moving tributes to friends and colleagues, including a eulogy for novelist Douglas Adams; he shares correspondence with the evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould; and he visits with the famed paleoanthropologists Richard and Maeve Leakey at their African wildlife preserve. He concludes the essays with a vivid note to his ten-year-old daughter, reminding her to remain curious, to ask questions, and to live the examined life.
Richard Dawkins's essays are an enthusiastic testament to the power of rigorous, scientific examination, and they span many different corners of his personal and professional life. He revisits the meme, the unit of cultural information that he named and wrote about in his groundbreaking work The Selfish Gene. He makes moving tributes to friends and colleagues, including a eulogy for novelist Douglas Adams; he shares correspondence with the evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould; and he visits with the famed paleoanthropologists Richard and Maeve Leakey at their African wildlife preserve. He concludes the essays with a vivid note to his ten-year-old daughter, reminding her to remain curious, to ask questions, and to live the examined life.
263 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2003
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January 4, 2018
"A Devil's Chaplain" събира есета писани от Докинс в продължение на 25 години (не всички разбира се и имайте предвид, че книгата излиза 2003г.). Съдържа статии засягащи широк спектър от теми: религия, тероризъм, псевдонаука, (псевдо)интелектуализъм, еволюция, меми, генетичен детерминизъм...; нищо необичайно дотук. В сборника обаче се срещат и рецензии на книги (като тези на Стивън Джей Гулд- един от най-влиятелните еволюционни биолози и палеонтолози; човек, с когото Докинс често води академични спорове, но и когото дълбоко уважава), предговори към други (с основна тема- Африка; Докинс засвидетелства безграничната си любов към "люлката на човечеството" и мястото, където е роден и е прекарал първите години от детството си) и посвещения към учители и приятели (като това, което произнася на погребението на Дъглас Адамс).
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