A Fourfold Vision
Nature Religion and the Wages of Scientism in Ursula K. Le Guin's 'Newton's Sleep
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3440600 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Catherine L Newell (University of Miami, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 279 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel9090279 |
| OpenAlex | W2889808707 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
Ursula K. Le Guin's 1991 short story 'Newton's Sleep' begins in a utopic society that escaped the environmental and social calamity of a near-future Earth and created an enlightened culture on a space station. The group, led by a scientific elite, pride themselves on eradicating the irrational prejudices and unempirical mentality that hamstringed Earth; but chaos blossoms as the society struggles with the reappearance of religious intolerance, and becomes confused by an outbreak of mass hallucinations of the Earth they left behind. This narrative trope of the necessity of nature for the survival of humanity-physically, mentally, and spiritually-represents a new and relatively common allegory in contemporary science fiction in an era distinguished by separation from the natural world
Aesthetics · Allegory · Art · Elite · Epistemology · Humanity · Irrational number · Literature · Mysticism · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Scientism · Sociology · Theology · Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious studies · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
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Health Effects of Media on Children and Adolescents
The Human Relation With Nature and Technological Nature
The Misdiagnosis
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Why Gaia
The Universities and Science in Seventeenth Century England
Newton and Newtonianism
The relationship between nature relatedness and anxiety
The House of Experiment in Seventeenth-Century England
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