Mary Midgley argues in her powerful new book that far from being the oppositeof science myth is a central part of it. In brilliant prose she claims thatmyths ar... » 

Mary Midgley argues in her powerful new book that far from being the oppositeof science myth is a central part of it. In brilliant prose she claims thatmyths are neither lies nor mere stories but a network of powerful symbols thatsuggest particular ways of interpreting the world. «