Revolution: A Novel (1921)

By: Beresford, John Davys

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0548860726
• ISBN13: 9780548860724
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Philosophically important and packed with fascinating historical information

In its opening chapters this book examines in detail the historical trajectory of two competing world views in Western thought, which Dr. Channell identifies as the mechanistic and the vitalistic. It then describes a convergence of the two paradigms in the age of modern biological and computer science into what Channell terms the "bionic" worldview, wherein artificial and natural values have developed to the point where they...