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Author:   Basarab Nicolescu
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.526kg
ISBN:  

9781438449630

ISBN 10:   1438449631
Pages:   282
Publication Date:   01 January 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Introduction 1. From Shattered Culture Toward Transculture The Christian Origin of Modern Science Do Science and Culture Have Something in Common? The Transcultural and the Mirror of the Other The Transreligious Attitude and the Presence of the Sacred 2. Contemporary Physics and the Western Tradition Tradition and Traditions Science and Tradition: Two Poles of a Contradiction A Possible Bridge between Sciences and Tradition: The Rationality of the World Describing God's Being... Movement and Discontinuity: The Eternal Genesis of Reality Scientific Thinking and Symbolic Thinking: Icons and Themata A Necessary Encounter 3. The Grandeur and Decadence of Scientism The Classical Vision of the World and the Death of Man Modern Mahabharata-like Drama: The Quantum Vision of the World 4. The Valley of Astonishment: The Quantum World About the Difficulties of the Journey Planck, Discontinuity, and the Quantum Revolution The Particle and Quantum Spontaneity Heisenberg's Relations and the Failure of Classic Determinism The Multiplicity of Quantum Values and the Role of Observation Quantum Vacuum: A Full Vacuum Quantum Nonseparability 5. The Endless Route of the Unification of the World Is a Single Energy the Source of the World's Diversity? The Final Theory: Superstrings? The Unification of Heaven and Earth Can Everything Be Unified? Everything is Vibration The Mystery Theorists Seekers of Truth 6. The Strange Fourth Dimension 7. The Bootstrap Principle and the Uniqueness of Our World Eddington and the Epistemological Principles Unity and Self-Consistency: The Bootstrap Principle Is There a Nuclear Democracy? The Bootstrap and the Anthropic Principle Methodological Considerations 8. Complexity and Reality The Emergence of Complex Pluarlity Some Reflections on Systemic Thinking Systemic Thinking and Quantum Physics Levels of Reality Is There a Cosmic Bootstrap? Evolution and Involution 9. The Human Being: The Most Perfect of All Signs Natural Language and Scientific Language Peirce and Spontaneity Invariance and Thirdness The Possibility of a Universal Language 10. Beyond Dualism A Stick Always Has Two Ends Stephane Lupasco (1900-1988): The Herald of the Coming Third The Included Third The Ternary Dialectics of Reality Triadic Systemogenesis and the Three Matters Nonseparability and the Unity of the World The Nature of Space-Time Is Lupasco a Prophet of the Irrational The Experienced Third 11. The Psychophysical Problem Reduction and Reductionism The Coincidentia Oppositorum and Hermetic Irrationalism The Core of the Problem: We Are Too Deeply Immersed in the Seventeenth Century The Most Important Task of Our Time: A New Idea about Reality New Perspectives in the Ternary-Quaternary Debate Umberto Eco's Logical and Epistemological Error 12. From the Quantum World to Ionesco's Antitheater and Quantum Aesthetics For a Yes or for a No Ionesco and the Non-Aristotelian Theater Gregorio Morales: Quantum Aesthetics and Quantum Theater 13. The Theater of Peter Brook as a Field of Study of Energy, Movement, and Interrelations 14. From Contemporary Science to the World of Art Andre Breton and the Logic of Contradiction George Mathieu and Aristotle's Cage Salvador Dali and Nuclear Mysticism Frederic Benrath, Karel Appel, and Rene Huyghe 15. Vision of Reality and Reality of Vision Poincare and Sudden Enlightenment Hardamard and Thinking without Words Kepler and the Living Earth Bohr and Complementarity Understanding the Reality of the Imaginary: The Imaginary and the Imaginal 16. Can Science Be a Religion? The Clowns of the Impossible Highlights of the New Barbarity Between the Anecdote and the Unspeakable The Sokal Affair: Beyond Three Extremisms A Necessary Isomorphism The End Science? The Spiritual Dimension of Democracy: Utopia or Necessity? 17. The Hidden Third and the Multiple Splendor of Being Premodernity, Modernity, Postmodernity, and Cosmodernity as Different Visions of the Relation between the Subject and the Object Ladder of Divine Ascent and Levels of Being Toward a Unified Theory of Levels of Reality At the Threshold of New Renaissance Notes Bibliography Name Index Subject Index

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"""...a breath of fresh air."" - symploke ""...a profound and groundbreaking book ... the intellectual contribution of this book is a form of beautiful, poignant, heart stopping art. It is an intellectual piece de resistance; a creation that resists and defies orthodox or common conventions and practices (i.e., modernism), thereby making the whole of the creation unique and special (cosmodernism). Take a deep breath and read it, ideally from beginning to end, but even sampling it will change your life and open intellectual doors."" - Integral Leadership Review ""...[a] substantial book."" - CHOICE"

...a profound and groundbreaking book ... the intellectual contribution of this book is a form of beautiful, poignant, heart stopping art. It is an intellectual piece de resistance; a creation that resists and defies orthodox or common conventions and practices (i.e., modernism), thereby making the whole of the creation unique and special (cosmodernism). Take a deep breath and read it, ideally from beginning to end, but even sampling it will change your life and open intellectual doors. - Integral Leadership Review ...[a] substantial book. - CHOICE

Author Information

Basarab Nicolescu is President of the International Center for Transdisciplinary Research and Honorary Researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research, both in Paris, France, and Professor at the Babes-Bolyai University in Romania. He is the author of several books, including Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity (translated by Karen-Claire Voss), also published by SUNY Press.

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