The Narrative Universe (Gianluca Bocchi and Mauro Ceruti)

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In their widely praised work The Narrative Universe, Bocchi and Ceruti have crafted our time's most comprehensive and compact survey of contemporary science, drawing from biology, complexity science, cultural history, cosmology, linguistics, mythology, anthropology, as well as the history of religions, literature, and twentieth century film. The authors take us down the highways and byways of the world of knowledge, to tell us that we live not only in a contingent universe but are engaged in the creation of contingent knowledges. We are forced to think about assumptions we never realized needed to be questioned. It is a resolutely hopeful, creative work about a creative universe. The Narrative Universe is a masterful work of scholarship about the history of consciousness, from the earliest dawnings of human awareness to the latest reflections of evolutionary theory about our evolution. Contents: Series Editor's Foreword, Alfonso Montuori. Foreword, Jerome Bruner. STORIES OF ORIGIN. The Origin of History. The World of the Goddess. History Before History. Earth Goddesses and Sky Gods. Intertwining Dualities. Eternal Reward and the Promise of Salvation. THE INVENTION OF A NEW ERA. The Universe in the Pluriverse. 1492. Cuius Regio, Eius Religio. A Closed World in an Infinite Universe. History and Forms. THE TIME OF EVOLUTION. The End of Eternity. Exploring Deep Time. Life of the Species. Leaps in Nature. The Return of "Hopeful Monsters". Evolutionary Pluralism. The Ecology of Evolution. THE METAMORPHOSES OF LIFE. Shiva's Dance. The Ages of the Blogosphere. Death of the Species. Animals Are Not What They Used to Be. Life Before Life. THE CONTINGENT UNIVERSE. Beyond the End of the World. Jurassic Park, Professor Ichthyosaurus, and the Mesozoic Rats. The Bookmaker's Bankruptcy. Irreversibility, Events and Coherence. The Greatest Science Fiction Stories Ever Told. Bibliography.