What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1416526854 ISBN 13: 9781416526858

Casa editrice: Simon + Schuster UK, 2007

Riassunto

The history of science is replete with ideas that were considered socially, morally or emotionally dangerous in their time. The Copernican and Darwinian revolutions are obvious examples -- radical, brilliant insights that did not so much push the envelope as rip it into shreds. These ideas were dangerous because they challenged our comfort zone.But what are the dangerous ideas of the twenty-first century? Which theories do the world's leading thinkers and scientists regard as too hot to handle -- not because the idea might be false, but because it might turn out to be true?Collecting together the very best contributions to the renowned Edge.org question from the most eminent respondents, WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA? is another endlessly fascinating and provocative insight into the bleeding-edge of intellectual endeavour.

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Recensione:

‘Makes us think twice about the most taboo subjects... A high-minded yet very accessible book that pleads the case for rational thought’
Big Issue 20/11

‘A brilliant book: exhilarating, hilarious and chilling’
Evening Standard 18/12

‘Provocative’
Independent 31/11

‘Each year [John Brockman’s website] Edge poses a question to the leading “thinkers in the empirical world”. In 2006 Steven Pinker suggested “What is your dangerous idea?”... There are more than 100 responses in this volume and they make fascinating and provocative reading’
Guardian 4/8

L'autore:

John Brockman is a writer, agent and publisher of the 'Third Culture' website www.edge.org, the forum for leading scientists and thinkers to share their research with the general public. He is the author of THE THIRD CULTURE and the editor of several anthologies including WHAT WE BELIEVE BUT CANNOT PROVE and WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA?. He lives in New York.

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• Editore: Simon + Schuster UK
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1416526854
• ISBN 13: 9781416526858
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352
• Redattore: Brockman John