Cosmos and transcendence :
Subtitle: breaking through the barrier of scientistic belief
Edition: second, revised edition
Publisher: SOPHIA PERENNIS
Published: 2008
Place of publication: SAN RAFAEL (CA) US
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 168
Copyright date: 1984, 2008
First sentence: AS THIS BOOK makes compellingly dear, the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century heralded the triumph of a particular philosophical outlook (rationalistic, materialist) with its attendant epistemology (empiricism) and procedures (the 'scientific method').
Table of contents: title: .; title: Foreword 1; title: Preface to Second Edition 3; title: 1 The Idea of the Physical Universe 7; title: 2 The Cartesian Dilemma 21; title: 3 Lost Horizons 39; title: 4 Evolution: Fact and Fantasy 64; title: 5 The Ego and the Beast 95; title: 6 The Deification of the Unconscious 115; title: 7 'Progress' in Retrospect 141; title: Index of Names 167; title: .