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In 1965 English scientist James Lovelock had a flash of
insight: the Earth is not just teeming with life; the Earth,
in some sense, is life. He mulled this revolutionary
idea over for several years, first with his close friend the
novelist William Golding, and then in an extensive
collaboration with the American scientist Lynn Margulis. In
the early 1970s, he finally went public with the Gaia
hypothesis, the idea that everything happens for an end: the
good of planet Earth. Lovelock and Margulis were scorned by
professional scientists, but the general public
enthusiastically embraced Lovelock and his hypothesis. People
joined Gaia groups; churches had Gaia services, sometimes
with new music written especially for the occasion. There was
a Gaia atlas, Gaia gardening, Gaia herbs, Gaia retreats, Gaia
networking, and much more. And the range of enthusiasts
was—and still is—broad.
In The Gaia Hypothesis, philosopher Michael Ruse, with
his characteristic clarity and wit, uses Gaia and its
history, its supporters and detractors, to illuminate the
nature of science itself. Gaia emerged in the 1960s, a decade
when authority was questioned and status and dignity stood
for nothing, but its story is much older. Ruse traces Gaia’s
connection to Plato and a long history of goal-directed and
holistic—or organicist—thinking and explains why Lovelock and
Margulis’s peers rejected it as pseudoscience. But Ruse also
shows why the project was a success. He argues that Lovelock
and Margulis should be commended for giving philosophy firm
scientific basis and for provoking important scientific
discussion about the world as a whole, its homeostasis or—in
this age of global environmental uncertainty—its lack
thereof.
Melding the world of science and technology with the world of
feeling, mysticism, and religion, The Gaia Hypothesis
will appeal to a broad range of readers, from students and
scholars of the history and philosophy of science to anyone
interested in New Age culture.