The Reenchantment of Science: Postmodern Proposals (Constructive Postmod Tht (Dis))

ISBN 10: 0887067859 / ISBN 13: 9780887067853

Editore: State University of New York Press, 1988

The book is complete and readable, with all pages and cover intact. Dust jacket, shrink wrap, or boxed set case may be missing. Pages may have light notes, highlighting, or minor water exposure, but nothing that affects readability. May be an ex-library copy and could include library markings or stickers. Codice articolo BSM.10DXQ

Riassunto:

This book describes the move from modern, mechanistic science to a post-modern, organismic science. David Ray Griffin gives voice to a revisionary postmodernism, based on the work of Whitehead and Hartshorne that contrasts with the relativistic, nihilistic postmodernism of Heidegger, Derrida, and Wittgenstein. The book brings together some of today's most creative thinking about science.

Griffin's introductory essay summarizes the way in which the mechanistic view led to the disenchantment of science and the various reasons for the reversal of this process in our time. The essays on physics, cosmology, biology, ecology, psychosomatic medicine and parapsychology bring out the various dimensions of the reenchantment of science: the replacement of modern dualism and reductionism with an ecological, organismic paradigm; the priority of internal relations to external; the casal power of experience; the presence of experience, purpose, and intrinsic value throughout nature; influence at a distance; the laws of nature as habits; the presence of a divine whole in all the parts; and the history of the universe as a self-creative, meaningful story. This book gives a powerful voice to this emerging movement's proposals for a postmodern science, spirituality, and world order.

Informazioni sull?autore: David Ray Griffin is Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the School of Theology at Claremont.

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Titolo: The Reenchantment of Science: Postmodern ...
Casa editrice: State University of New York Press
Data di pubblicazione: 1988
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: acceptable