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Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity
Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity
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Basarab Nicolescu - Author
Karen-Claire Voss - Translator
SUNY series in Western Esoteric Traditions
Price: $49.50 
Hardcover - 176 pages
Release Date: January 2002
ISBN10: 0-7914-5261-1
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-5261-5

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Paperback - 176 pages
Release Date: January 2002
ISBN10: 0-7914-5262-X
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-5262-2

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Electronic - 176 pages
Release Date: February 2012
ISBN10: 0-7914-8916-7
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-8916-1


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Unifies science and the sacred based on what we've learned from quantum physics.

In this manifesto for the twenty-first century, Basarab Nicolescu, a Romanian quantum physicist, uses the unification of the scientific culture and the sacred as his axis to address the problem of fragmentation which plagues contemporary life. Nicolescu identifies the dangers of self-destruction caused by modernity and increased use of technology and offers alternative ways to address them—a transdisciplinary approach that propels us beyond the either/or thinking that gave rise to the antagonisms that initially produced the problems. Nicolescu calls on us to rethink everything in terms of what quantum physics has shown us about the nature of the universe. He argues that reality is not something that exists on one level, but rather on many levels, and only a transdisciplinary approach can deal with the dynamics of several levels of reality at once.

“This is a brilliant, visionary and compassionate work which I urge you to read and ponder.” — The Scientific and Medical Network

“This book is uncommon in that it offers far-reaching general insights about the world, culture, and the human spirit, as well as a program for action. The author is as brilliant as he is unconventional.” — Jacob Needleman, author of The Heart of Philosophy

Basarab Nicolescu is a theoretical physicist at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the University of Paris. He is the author of several books including Science, Meaning, and Evolution—The Cosmology of Jacob Boehme, translated from the French by Rob Baker, winner of the 1992 Benjamin Franklin Award for Best History Book.


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Table of Contents

1. To Avoid Any Misunderstanding

2. Tomorrow May Be Too Late

3. The Grandeur and Decadence of Scientism

4. Quantum Physics and Levels of Reality

5. A Stick Always Has Two Ends

6. The Emergence of Complex Plurality

7. A New Vision of the World--Transdisciplinarity

8. Transdisciplinarity and the Open Unity of the World

9. The Death and the Resurrection of Nature

10. Homo Sui Transcendentalis

11. Techno-Nature and Cyberspace

12. The Feminization of Society and the Poetic Dimension of Existence

13. On the Cult of Personality

14. Science and Culture: Beyond Two Cultures

15. The Transcultural and the Mirror of the Other

16. Transdisciplinarity--Deviations and Wrong Turns

17. Rigor, Opening, and Tolerance

18. The Transreligious Attitude and the Presence of the Sacred

19. The Transdisciplinary Evolution of Education

20. Toward a New Humanism: Transhumanism

Appendix I. The Charter of Transdisciplinarity

Appendix II. Table 1. Comparison between disciplinary knowledge (DK) and transdisciplinary knowledge (TK)

Appendix III.

Figure 1. The transdisciplinary Object, the transdisciplinary Subject, and the Interaction term
Figure 2. Symbolic representation of the action of the logic of the included middle

Index



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