Revolution: A Novel (1921)

By Brendan Gill

Book Overview

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394489896
• ISBN13: 9780394489896
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Random House
• Length: 406 Pages
• Weight: 2.27 lbs.

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...