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Summary
Leading scholar-practitioners discuss the strengths, limits, and potential of Integral Theory and the AQAL model.
In a world as complex as ours, an Integral approach is needed to help sort through a dynamic landscape and respond effectively to individual and collective challenges. Integral Theory in Action provides the first multiauthored overview of such an approach. Integral Theory is the result of thirty years of research and is being applied in over thirty-five distinct disciplines. This volume brings together two dozen leading scholar-practitioners who are actively applying integral principles and who address a range of issues from an integral perspective, including climate change, embodiment, feminist aesthetics, community discourse, treatment of depression, developmental theory, and global ethics. The strengths, limitations, and potential of Integral Theory and Ken Wilber’s AQAL model are weighed by each contributor. This collection pushes the field of Integral Theory in new ways and new directions, and provides a comprehensive overview that makes it an invaluable resource for any integral effort.
“This represents the first flowering of a new theoretical movement that has potential implications for the full spectrum of disciplinary inquiry as well as for significant areas of practical application, from ethics and development assessment to climate change.” — Sean M. Kelly, author of Coming Home: The Birth and Transformation of the Planetary Era
Sean Esbjörn-Hargens is Associate Professor and Founding Chair of the Integral Theory Program at John F. Kennedy University. He is the coeditor (withJonathan Reams and Olen Gunnlaugson) of Integral Education: New Directions for Higher Learning, also published by SUNY Press; the coauthor (with Michael E. Zimmerman) of Integral Ecology: Uniting Multiple Perspectives on the Natural World;and Executive Editor of the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Foreword: The Integral Enterprise: Current Frontiers and Possible Futures Roger N. Walsh
Introduction Sean Esbjörn-Hargens
Prologue: The Academic Emergence of Integral Theory: Reflections on and Clarifications of the 1st Biennial Integral Theory Conference Mark D. Forman and Sean Esbjörn-Hargens
1. An Overview of Integral Theory: An All-Inclusive Framework
for the Twenty-First Century Sean Esbjörn-Hargens
I. Applied Perspectives
2.Responding to Climate Change: The Need for an Integral Approach Karen O’Brien
3.Embodiment, an Ascending and Descending Development Theresa Silow
4. Beauty and the Expansion of Women’s Identity Vanessa D. Fisher
5. Writing to Effect: Textual Form as Realization in an Integral Community Michele Chase
6. An Integral Understanding of the Etiology of Depression Elliott Ingersoll
II. Theoretical Perspectives
7. Now You Get It, Now You Don’t: Developmental Differences in the Understanding of Integral Theory and Practice Zachary Stein
8. The Final Cause of Cosmic Development: Nondual Spirit or the Second Law of Thermodynamics? Michael E. Zimmerman
9. Frames of AQAL, Integral Critical Theory, and the Emerging Integral Arts Michael Schwartz
10. Integral Situational Ethical Pluralism: An Overview of a Second-Tier Ethic for the Twenty-First Century Randy Martin
11. An Integral Map of Perspective-Taking Clint Fuhs
12. Second-Tier Gains and Challenges in Ego Development Susanne Cook-Greuter
III. Constructive Perspectives
13. Rhizomatic Contributions to Integral Ecology in Deleuze and Guattari Sam Mickey
14. Exploring Epistemic Wisdom: Ethical and Practical Implications of Integral Studies and Methodological Pluralism for Collaboration and Knowledge-Building Tom Murray
15. Appropriation in Integral Theory: The Case of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s “Untold” Integral View Charles I. Flores
16. Of Elephants and Butterflies: An Integral Metatheory for Organizational Transformation Mark Edwards
17. Developmental Action Inquiry: A Distinct Integral Theory That Actually Integrates Developmental Theory, Practice, and Research William R. Torbert, Reut Livne-Tarandach, David McCallum, Aliki Nicolaides, and Elaine Herdman-Barker
