This is not a book you can read once and absorb its whole intention. I think I have barely scratched the surface of its intention, which I think it is questioning the increasing concept of modernist reductionism. And what Robinson calls the ‘parascientists’ and their exclusion of anything that predates their current theories. Theories which she feels rarely hold up under intelligent scrutiny, and that don’t ask questions whose answers would contradict those theories. She is not anti-science, but believes that many of these more accessible ideas are given more weight by inferring a scientific analysis which is far less rigorous than that used for physical science.
It is difficult to rate a book one barely understands the content of, but the fact that it will provide much food for thought, and its own rigour, despite only having a superficial understanding seems quite obvious.
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Hello Caroline
ReplyDeleteI found you via Library Thing (I am Arco-Iris) and will enjoy getting down to catching up with your reads. I feel like a child in a sweetshop.
I have a blog but it's about Mediterranean Gardening over the 8 years here, reclaiming a barley field. I don't post so often now though.