The wholeness of nature : Goethe's way toward a science of conscious participation in nature / Henri Bortoft.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bortoft, Henri, 1938-

Series:

Renewal in science

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832--Knowledge and learning--Natural history.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.

Natural history.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832--Knowledge and learning--Science.

Nature in literature.

Nature (Aesthetics).

Science in literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 407 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Hudson, N.Y. : Lindisfarne Press, [1996]

Summary:

While most readers are familiar with Goethe as a poet and dramatist, few are familiar with his scientific work. In this brilliant book, Henri Bortoft, who began his studies of Goethean science with J. G. Bennett and David Bohm, introduces the fascinating scientific theories of Goethe. He succeeds in showing that Goethe's way of doing science was not a poet's folly, but rather a genuine alternative to the dominant scientific paradigm. He shows that a different, "gentler" kind of empiricism is possible than that demanded by the dualizing mind of modern technological science, and demonstrates that Goethe's participatory phenomenology of a new way of seeing, far from being a historical curiosity, actually proposes a workable solution to the dilemmas of contemporary, postmodern science.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-407).

ISBN:

0940262797

OCLC:

34951391