Title: Manifesto of transdisciplinarity /
Authors: Nicolescu, Basarab.
Publisher: State University of New York Press,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Philosophy and science.; Science Philosophy
Abstract: 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 alternativev 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. -- from back cover.
Contents: To avoid any misunderstanding -- Tomorrow may be too late -- The grandeur and decadence of scientism -- Quantum physics and levels of reality -- A stick always has two ends -- The emergence of complex plurality -- A new vision of the world -- Transdisciplinarity -- Transdisciplinarity and the open unity of the world -- The death and resurrection of nature -- Homo sui transcendentalis -- Techno-nature and cyberspace -- The feminization of socieyt and the poetic dimension of existence -- On the cult of personality -- Science and culture: Beyond two cultures -- The transcultural and the mirror of the other -- Transdisciplinarity -- Deviations and wrong turns -- Rigor, opening, and tolerance -- The transreligious attitude and the presence of the sacred -- The transdisciplinary evolution of education -- Toward a new humanism: Transhumanism.