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Transformative Change in Western Thought - A History of Metamorphosis from Homer to Hollywood (Hardcover, New)
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Transformative Change in Western Thought - A History of Metamorphosis from Homer to Hollywood (Hardcover, New)
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This groundbreaking volume maps the shifting place and function of
marvelous transformations from antiquity to the present day.
Shape-shifting, taking animal bodies, miracles, transubstantiation,
alchemy, and mutation recur and echo throughout ancient and modern
writing and thinking and continue in science fiction today as tales
of gene-splicing and hybridisation. The idea of metamorphosis lies
in uneasy coexistence with orderly worldviews and it is often cast
out, or attributed to enemies. Augustine and the church fathers
consider shape-shifting ungodly; Enlightenment thinkers suppress
alchemy as unscientific; genetically-modified wheat and stem-cell
research are stigmatised as unnatural. Yet the very possibility of
radical transformation inspires hope just as it frightens. A
provocative, theorising, trans-historical history, this book ranges
across classics, literature, history, philosophy, theology and
anthropology.
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