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Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge.
by Edward O. Wilson, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 332 pages, $26.00
This is a book about everything, in a sense, and it contains something to provoke, disturb, or irritate just about everybody. Edward O. Wilson argues that all fields of knowledge and inquiry - ranging from physics and chemistry to art criticism and moral reasoning, with the social sciences somewhere in between - can and should be knit together into a comprehensive worldview. His case for "consilience," literally a "jumping together" of disciplines, encompasses, among other things, an attack on postmodernism, a brief for environmen...See the full content of this document
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