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A History of Space: The Pearly Gates from Dante of Cyberspace to the Internet
Contributor(s): Wertheim, Margaret (Author)

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 ISBN: 0393320537     ISBN-13: 9780393320534
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
OUR PRICE: $22.75  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: May 2000
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Annotation: Cyberspace may seem an unlikely gateway for the soul, but as science commentator Wertheim argues in this "wonderfully provocative" ("Kirkus Reviews") book, cyberspace has in recent years become a repository for immense spiritual yearning. 37 illustrations.
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BISAC Categories:
- Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects
Dewey: 303.483
LCCN: 98-38200
Physical Information: 0.85" H x 5.55" W x 8.23" L (0.85 lbs) 336 pages
Features: Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents
 
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Publisher Description:
But as science commentator Margaret Wertheim argues in this marvelously provocative (Kirkus Reviews) book, cyberspace has in recent years become a repository for immense spiritual yearning. Wertheim explores the mapping of spiritual desire onto digitized space and suggests that the modem today has become a metaphysical escape-hatch from a materialism that many people find increasingly dissatisfying. Cyberspace opens up a collective space beyond the laws of physics-a space where mind rather than matter reigns. This strange refuge returns us to an almost medieval dualism between a physical space of body and an immaterial space of mind and psyche.

Contributor Bio(s): Wertheim, Margaret: - Margaret Wertheim is a science journalist and commentator and author of the book Pythagoras' Trousers.
 
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