The Third Culture: Participatory Science as the Basis for a Healing Culture - Couverture souple

Barnes, John Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 093277640X ISBN 13 : 9780932776402

Editeur : Adonis Press, 2010

Synopsis

Modern science, with its causal and quantitative methods, has provided the basis for our technologically-driven society. But the technological prowess that has brought us incredible wealth and power has also led to the exploitation and degradation of nature. In addition, the reductive methods of modern science have left us without any scientific understanding of our own immediate experience: of the creative human spirit, or of the qualitative richness and dynamic wholeness of natural phenomena.

Retracing the evolution of human consciousness, this lively essay shows how participatory methods are emerging as a necessary next step in the development of science. As inaugurated by Goethe, further developed by Steiner, and independently conceived of by Polanyi, this new scientific approach calls for conscious participation in the processes and qualities of the world. It sees them as manifestations of creative forces that elude the methods of materialistic science. Insights into the dynamic principles of life and spirit provide the basis for a healing culture.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

John Michael Barnes, after teaching at Waldorf schools for twenty-five years, is working as a publisher and author, focusing on his lifelong interest in Goethean, phenomenological science.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Adonis Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 093277640X
• ISBN 13: 9780932776402
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible