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Newton's Sleep - The Two Cultures and the Two Kingdoms (Hardcover, 1995 ed.)
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Newton's Sleep - The Two Cultures and the Two Kingdoms (Hardcover, 1995 ed.)
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'Vast in its intellectual scope, it should induce not so much sleep
as controversy, whether literary or scientific, philosophical or
political. It skims the oceans of academe in a manner accessible to
the educated public, informed and cogently argued, stylistically
dense...' - Sandra Goldbeck-Wood, British Medical Journal `Tallis
can, and frequently does, write extremely well. He also writes with
considerable passion...Raymond Tallis, is perhaps best seen as an
exceptionally interesting and broad-minded heir to Huxley,
preaching the cause of the Church Scientific.' - Richard Webster,
Times Literary Supplement Reviews of Not Saussure and The Explicit
Animal: Not Saussure - 'I greatly enjoyed it...' - Bernard Bergonzi
'The Explicit Animal - '...his books are genuine contributions to
professional debate...' - Stephen R.L. Clarke, Times Literary
Supplement Newton's Sleep examines the complementary roles of
science and art in human life. Science has been criticised for
being at best useful but spiritually derelict, and art for
attempting to answer the spiritual needs of humankind while
ignoring the material needs of millions who live in want. Newton's
Sleep deals with the charges that science is spiritually empty and
that art fails in its civilising mission by relating these aspects
of human culture to the physical and metaphysical hungers of an
explicit animal who lives in both the Kingdom of Means and the
Kingdom of Ends. 'Tallis can, and frequently does, write extremely
well. He also writes with considerable passion...Tallis...is
perhaps best seen as an exceptionally interesting and broad-minded
heir to Huxley, preaching the cause of the Church Scientific...'
Richard Webster
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