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The Third Culture

Participatory Science as the Basis for a Healing Culture
  • ISBN-13: 9780932776402
  • Publisher: STEINER BOOKS INC
    Imprint: ADONIS PRESS
  • By John Michael Barnes
  • Price: AUD $34.99
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 18/08/2010
  • Format: Paperback (204.00mm X 140.00mm) 144 pages Weight: 170g
  • Categories: Philosophy of science [PDA]
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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.
John Barnes taught at Steiner-Waldorf schools for twenty-five years before becoming a publisher and author, focusing on his lifelong interest in Goethean, phenomenological science.
Foreword Participatory Science The Crisis of Objectivism From Monism to Dualism Michael Polanyi's Personal Knowledge Goethe Steiner Anthroposophy Art Applied Participatory Science Toward a Third Culture Notes
'Barnes is effective in using anthroposophical language to delineate trends which often make good historical sense even without drawing on this spiritual science tradition.' -- Martin Lockley, Scientific and Medical Network Review, Summer 2010
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