The Human Evasion [Paperback]

'A subtle and sustained attack upon contemporary ways of thought.'

'Refreshing ... so much sparkle.' Philip Toynbee

'A brilliant exposition of the human predicament.'

THE HUMAN EVASION is an attack on the way of thought of twentieth-century man, revealing the patterns of prejudice which underlie his most cherished and sacrosanct opinions. For all its seriousness, the book is written with sustained wit and intellectual audacity. Surveying the whole field of modern thought, the author reveals the same disease at work in modern Christianity as in theoretical physics. Trenchant and provocative, this book is profoundly controversial - and brilliantly funny.

This is the second printing of The Human Evasion which has been translated into Dutch, German, Italian and Russian.

From the Foreword by R.H. Ward: `Anyone who reads this book . . . must be prepared to be profoundly disturbed, upset and in fact looking-glassed himself; which will be greatly to his advantage, if he can stand it. Few books, long or short, are great ones; this book is short and among those few.'

Celia Green has been at various times Senior Open Scholar at Somerville College, Oxford, holder of a Perrott Warrick Studentship from Trinity College, Cambridge, and Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, Liverpool University. She was awarded her doctorate by Oxford University for work on causation and the mind-body problem. She is the author of eight other books, among them The Human Evasion, The Decline and Fall of Science, and Advice to Clever Children. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

`On the face of it there is something rather strange about human psychology. Human beings live in a state of mind called sanity, on a small planet in space. They are not quite sure whether the space around them is infinite or not, either way it is unthinkable. If they think about time, they find that it is inconceivable that it had a beginning. It is also inconceivable that it did not have a beginning. Thoughts of this kind are not disturbing to sanity, which is obviously a remarkable phenomenon that deserves more recognition.'