Research Catalog

Title

Transdisciplinarity : theory and practice / edited by Basarab Nicolescu.

Publication

Cresskill, NJ : Hampton Press, c2008.

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Additional Authors

Nicolescu, Basarab.

Description

xvii, 299 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

In this fascinating volume, the contributors make it very clear that far from being a faddish and superficial phenomenon, transdisciplinarity is potentially the foundation for a new, and much needed, approach to inquiry. Transdisciplinarity goes beyond the dualism of opposing binary pairs: subject/object, subjectivity/objectivity, matter/consciousness, nature/divine, simplicity/complexity, reductionism/holism, diversity/unity which have marked the history of ideas for millennia. Because transdisciplinarity is radical, in the sense that is goes to the roots of knowledge, and questions our way of thinking and our construction and organization of knowledge. It requires a discipline of self-inquiry that integrates the knower in the process of knowing. Nicolescu's vision of transdisciplinarity, and that of the international contributors to this volume, goes beyond cognicentrism and the focus on analytic intelligence to propose a new type of intelligence that reflects a harmony between mind, feelings, and body.--from the preface.

Series Statement

Advances in systems theory, complexity, and the human sciences

Subject

Inquiry (Theory of knowledge)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Alfonso Montuori -- 1. In Vitro and In Vivo Knowledge -- Methodology of Transdisciplinarity / Basarab Nicolescu -- 2. The Reform of Thought, Transdisciplinarity, and Reform of the University / Edgar Morin -- 3. Transdisciplinarity and the Plight of Education / Giuseppe Del Re -- 4. Transdisciplinarity, a Path toward Peace: An Impossible Interview with a Poet / Antonella Verdiani -- 5. The Hidden Hand between Poetry and Science / Michel Camus -- 6. Levels of Being and Reality -- Ancient Indian Perspective / Kesiraju Venkata Raju -- 7. Where Are You Based? / Jan Visser -- 8. Towards an All-Embracing Optimism in the Realm of Being and Doing / Maria de Mello

ISBN

• 9781572738355 (paperbound)
• 1572738359 (paperbound)

LCCN

^^2008007125

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library