The Icarus Question: Essays on Science, Technology, and the Search for Home in a Changing World

Daedalus, the great inventor of ancient myth, fashioned wings so that he and his son Icarus could...
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Author: Gene Tracy
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The Icarus Question: Essays on Science, Technology, and the Search for Home in a Changing World by Tracy, Gene

The Icarus Question: Essays on Science, Technology, and the Search for Home in a Changing World

CHF 34.01

The Icarus Question: Essays on Science, Technology, and the Search for Home in a Changing World

CHF 34.01
Author: Gene Tracy
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Daedalus, the great inventor of ancient myth, fashioned wings so that he and his son Icarus could escape imprisonment. But it all went awry when Icarus ignored his father's warnings and flew too close to the Sun. We know how that story ends-or do we? In The Icarus Question, physicist Gene Tracy offers reasons to hope that humanity's urge to transcend our limitations need not lead to inevitable disaster. Weaving together memoir, history of science, mythology, astronomy, psychology and literary criticism, these essays are a point of departure for those curious to understand how science, technology and the culture at large can coevolve. From the necessity for empathy and wonder to act as correctives to climate denialism, to how science fiction can school us in the vulnerabilities that make us human, Tracy's probing and humane analysis calls on each of us not just to strive to understand the world, but to learn to love it better too. Only then will our children have a chance at being able to make a home on that far shore we call 'the future'.



Author: Gene Tracy
Publisher: Ramified Press
Published: 07/01/2023
Pages: 246
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9798988207023

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