The Turning Point: Science, Society, And The Rising Society

Description

Until recenlty, our view of the physical universe had been formed, for centuries, by the mechanistic thinking of Descarles and Newlon. New scientific concepts have overturned this world view, replacing it with a more holistic and ecological one that has afforded us deep insights into the nature of matter and its relation to the human mind.

About Author :

received his Ph.D. from the University of Vienna in 1966 and has since taught and researched theoretical high-energy physics at various European and American universities. He is currently researching at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and lecturing at the University of California at Berkeley. As well as publishing many technical research papers, Dr. Capra has written and lectured extensively about the philosophical implications of modern science. While living in London in the 1970s he wrote The Tao of Physics (also a Flamingo books), which became an international bestseller and has been translated into adozen languages.

Contents :

Author's Note

Acknowledgements

Preface

Crisis and Transformation

The Turning of the Tide

The Two Paradigms

The Newtonian World-Machine

The New Physics

The Influence of Cartesian-Newtonian Thought

The Mechanistic View of Life

The Biomedical Model

Newtonian Psychology

The Impasse of Economics

The Dark Side of Growth

The New Vision of Reality

The Systems View of Life

Wholeness and Health

Journeys Beyond Space and Time

The Passage to the Solar Age

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Features

• Title : The Turning Point: Science, Society, And The Rising Society
• Author : Fritjof Capra
• Publisher : Flamingo
• ISBN : 0006540171
• EAN : 9780006540175
• Binding : Paperback
• Number Of Pages : 516
• Language : English

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