The Meaning of Human Existence

Author(s): Edward O. Wilson

Philosophy

Searching for meaning in what Nietzsche called "the rainbow colours" around the outer edges of knowledge and imagination, Edward O. Wilson bridges science and philosophy to create a twenty-first-century treatise on human existence. Once criticised for his over-reliance on genetics, Wilson unfurls his most expansive and advanced theories on human behaviour. Whether attempting to explicate "the Riddle of the Human Species", warning of "the Collapse of Biodiversity" or creating a plausible "Portrait of E.T.", Wilson believes that humanity holds a special position in the known universe. Alarmed, however, that we are about to abandon natural selection by redesigning biology and human nature as we wish them, Wilson concludes that advances in science and technology bring us our greatest moral dilemma in millennia.


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Shortlisted for National Book Awards: Fiction 2014.

"His [Edward O. Wilson's] prose is always so lucid and eloquent." -- The Bookseller "Written in Wilson's usual engaging and highly readable style..." -- Times Higher Education

Edward O. Wilson is widely recognized as one of the world's preeminent biologists and naturalists. The author of more than twenty books, including The Creation, The Social Conquest of Earth, The Meaning of Human Existence, and Letters to a Young Scientist, Wilson is a professor emeritus at Harvard University. The winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, he lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.

General Fields

  • : 9781631491146
  • : W. W. Norton
  • : W. W. Norton
  • : September 2015
  • : United States
  • : September 2015
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Edward O. Wilson
  • : Paperback
  • : 1511
  • : English
  • : 128
  • : 208