Alpha and Omega

From Marginalian Editions: a far-seeing essay collection by the iconoclastic historian Jane Ellen Harrison?heroine to generations of writers from Virginia Woolf to Mary Beard?that explores the invisible tendrils between science and the sacred, the psychology of bias, the fulcrum of progress, and the countercultural courage of changing our minds in light of new understanding. Alpha and Omega is the culminating work of Jane Ellen Harrison, the maverick Cambridge classicist who reshaped our understanding of ancient Greek culture and pioneered a radical vision of faith, imagination, and progress. Declaring herself a "deeply religious atheist," Harrison rejected the confines of dogma to explore faith as the human capacity to transcend the known and imagine the possible. This collection of essays?published at the dawn of World War I?unpacks the invisible connections between science and spirituality, individual beli