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The Turning Point. Science, society and the rising culture

Door Fritjof Capra

Categorie
Algemeen Astrologie & Spiritualiteit
Boeknummer
#161866
Titel
The Turning Point. Science, society and the rising culture
Auteur
Capra, Fritjof
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Flamingo
Jaar van uitgave
1982
ISBN10
0006540171
ISBN13
9780006540175
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting
With depressing predictability, physicist-cum-holistic transcendentalist Fritjof Capra trots out the now-canonical indictment of Western society: Cartesian-Newtonian reductionism is the root of all evil, be it political, medical, social, or economic. But Capra, with a nod to the I Ching, sees a turning point: "The powerful light that has been banished returns. . . not brought about by force. . . arising spontaneously. . . therefore no harm results." For the reader, the results are fulsome declarations of the poverty of Western thinking, the failings of the "biomedical" model of disease, the insanity of nuclear power, the greed of multinational corporations, the anti-cosmic forces of agribusiness and the Green Revolution. Salration will come through the eclectic lights o... (Lees verder)f the new feminism (embodying the good Yin versus the macho Yang), the rediscovery of herbal Medicine, bodywork (from Reich to Rolf), solar power, the Jungian collective unconscious, et al. In truth, Fritjof is not all preachment, and major chapters are devoted to longish surveys of Western ideas in economics, medicine, and psychology which read smoothly and recognize gaps and biases. (Marx and Freud turn out to be all right, just mired in the prevailing scientific paradigms.) What is left out are the subtleties - the pluralisms and countervailing forces, past and present, that have turned the course of scientific thought and led to new models that try to approximate the complexities of nature and life. In the end, Fritjof's embrace of all species of holism gets so fuzzy as to have no sticking point at all. Any credo embracing Jung, Reich, Schureacher, Laing, Bateson, Commoner, Nader, Grof - not to mention matriarchy, the Gaia hypothesis, solar power, and Taoism - is just too far-out to be persuasive. (Kirkus Reviews) Lees meer
Pagina's
516
Conditie
Goed — Vouw in voorkaft
Prijs
€ 5,00

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