A collection of essays about the ways we construct our worldviews, and particularly how theories of genuine but limited value - like the social contract, say - are turned into all-consuming mythologies that can become distorting and false. Spends a lot of time talking about the ways in which scientific ideas are affected by this process, and how our mythologies about the natural world are no longer valid and need re-assessing.

Interesting stuff, if anything I was too much in agreement with her most of the time. Less focused as a whole than some of her other work, and I did have the feel that she was just writing and seeing where her thoughts led her, which is not the worst thing. Worth a read, but not as good as Evolution as a Religion or Heart and Mind. ( )