From modernity to cosmodernity : science, culture, and spirituality / Basarab Nicolescu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nicolescu, Basarab.

Series:

SUNY Series in Western Esoteric Traditions

SUNY series in Western esoteric traditions

SUNY series in Western Esoteric Traditions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reality.

Complexity (Philosophy).

Religion and science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Offers a new paradigm of reality, based on the interaction between science, culture, spirituality, religion, and society"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter One: 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""; ""Chapter Two: 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""

""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""; ""Chapter Five: 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""; ""Chapter Six: The Strange Fourth Dimension""

""Chapter Seven: 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""; ""Chapter Eight: Complexity and Reality""; ""The Emergence of Complex Plurality""; ""Some Reflections on Systemic Thinking""; ""Systemic Thinking and Quantum Physics""; ""Levels of Reality""; ""Is There a Cosmic Bootstrap?""; ""Evolution and Involution""

""The Experienced Third""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438449654

1438449658

OCLC:

912244072