{"product_id":"thinking-scientifically-john-fraser-9781910301807","title":"Thinking Scientifically","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Fraser\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1910301809\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781910301807\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Aesop Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d","brand":"John Fraser","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48486272172287,"sku":"9781910301807","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_da3325ab-cef3-4563-8d20-dfd2e67eaec5.jpg?v=1778054656","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/thinking-scientifically-john-fraser-9781910301807","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}