{"product_id":"thinking-scientifically-9781910301807","title":"Thinking Scientifically","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): John Fraser\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Aesop Publications\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Aesop Publications\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThinking Scientifically\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is John Fraser's latest wildly original, experimental work of fiction: three stories ('The Opera', 'Round the World', 'The Shaft') centred on one theme: while we can think scientifically, can we \u003cem\u003ebe\u003c\/em\u003e scientifically?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe can train as scientists - but that's a job, and when we stop doing it - we're the same chimpanzee types as everybody else. When we think\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003escientifically, what happens to all the other layers, the modalities, systems, of thought and being: the magical, the religious, the hunting and the gathering, the philosophical, the artistic...? The characters in the three long tales that make up \u003cem\u003eThinking Scientifically\u003c\/em\u003e are involved in science, certainly - science as setting records, sport, endurance ... science as the psychology ... of art: of desire, the desire to be a libertine, the search for the unknown and unattainable - our Kurdistans: of what we know is there, somewhere, and leaves us flattened and exhausted by the search. Science - has no end: if it has a scope, it is not ours, not our happiness, certainly. Is it the discovery, rather, that what we know, or would like to know, and what we are, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eare not at all the same? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the end, after the exploration and the hypotheses - there's kids, maybe not ours, crowds and causes, bureaucrats. Not at all scientific ... what then? Enough of thought? Of experiment? In the end ... company? A welcome? An opera, exotic clubs: the world: and a hole in the ground. The protagonists use their best analyses to draw conclusions and wisdom from these familiar settings.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46452094369943,"sku":"9781910301807","price":2208.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781910301807.webp?v=1769139526","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/thinking-scientifically-9781910301807","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}