TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nicolescu,Basarab
TI  - From modernity to cosmodernity: science, culture, and spirituality 
T2  - Suny series in western esoteric traditions
SN  - 9781438449630
AV  - BD331 
U1  - 110 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - Reality
KW  - Complexity (Philosophy)
KW  - Religion and science
KW  - Réalité
KW  - Complexité (Philosophie)
KW  - Religion et sciences
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - Metaphysics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Komplexität
KW  - gnd
KW  - Spiritualität
KW  - Wirklichkeit
KW  - Wissenschaft
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Chapter 1; From Shattered Culture Toward Transculture; 3 --; The Christian Origin of Modem Science; 3 --; Do Science and Culture Have Something in Common?; 7 --; The Transcultural and the Mirror of the Other; 10 --; The Transreligious Attitude and the Presence of the Sacred; 14 --; Chapter 2; Contemporary Physics and the Western Tradition; 19 --; Tradition and Traditions; 19 --; Science and Tradition: Two Poles of a Contradiction; 20 --; A Possible Bridge between Sciences and Tradition: The Rationality of the World; 23 --; Describing God's Being; 24 --; Movement and Discontinuity: The Eternal Genesis of Reality; 26 --; Scientific Thinking and Symbolic Thinking: Icons and Thêmata; 30 --; A Necessary Encounter; 34 --; Chapter 3; The Grandeur and Decadence of Scientism; 37 --; The Classical Vision of the World and the Death of Man; 37 --; Modem Mahabharata-like Drama: The Quantum Vision of the World; 40 --; Chapter 4; The Valley of Astonishment: The Quantum World; 45 --; About the Difficulties of the Journey; 45 --; Planck, Discontinuity, and the Quantum Revolution; 47 --; The Particle and Quantum Spontaneity; 50 --; Heisenberg's Relations and the Failure of Classic Determinism; 52 --; The Multiplicity of Quantum Values and the Role of Observation; 53 --; Quantum Vacuum: A Full Vacuum; 54 --; Quantum Nonseparability; 56 --; Chapter 5; The Endless Route of the Unification of the World; 59 --; Is a Single Energy the Source of the World's Diversity?; 59 --; The Final Theory: Superstrings?; 62 --; The Unification of Heaven and Earth; 63 --; Can Everything Be Unified?; 65 --; Everything Is Vibration; 66 --; The Mystery Theorists; 70 --; Seekers of Truth; 71 --; Chapter 6; The Strange Fourth Dimension; 75 --; Chapter 7; The Bootstrap Principle and the Uniqueness of Our World; 87 --; Eddington and the Epistemological Principles; 87 --; Unity and Self-Consistency: The Bootstrap Principle; 88 --; Is There a Nuclear Democracy?; 91 --; The Bootstrap and the Anthropic Principle; 92 --; Methodological Considerations; 95 --; Chapter 8; Complexity and Reality; 99 --; The Emergence of Complex Plurality; 99 --; Some Reflections on Systemic Thinking; 101 --; Systemic Thinking and Quantum Physics; 102 --; Levels of Reality; 104 --; Is There a Cosmic Bootstrap?; 107 --; Evolution and Involution; 110 --; Chapter 9; The Human Being: The Most Perfect of All Signs; 113 --; Natural Language and Scientific Language; 113 --; Peirce and Spontaneity; 114 --; Invariance and Thirdness; 116 --; The Possibility of a Universal Language; 118 --; Chapter 10; Beyond Dualism; 121 --; A Stick Always Has Two Ends; 121 --; Stéphane Lupasco (1900-1988): The Herald of the Coming Third; 125 --; The Included Third; 127 --; The Ternary Dialectics of Reality; 128 --; Triadic Systemogenesis and the Three Matters; 130 --; Nonseparability and the Unity of the World; 131 --; The Nature of Space-Time; 131 --; Is Lupasco a Prophet of the Irrational?; 132 --; The Experienced Third; 134 --; Chapter 11; The Psychophysical Problem; 137 --; Reduction and Reductionism; 137 --; The Coincidentia Oppositorum and Hermetic Irrationalism; 138 --; The Core of the Problem: We Are Too Deeply Immersed in the Seventeenth Century; 139 --; The Most Important Task of Our Time: A New Idea about Reality; 142 --; New Perspectives in the Ternary-Qua ternary Debate; 142 --; Umberto Eco's Logical and Epistemological Error; 144 --; Chapter 12; From the Quantum World to Ionesco's Antitheater And Quantum Aesthetics; 147 --; For a Yes or for a No; 147 --; Ionesco and the Non-Aristotelian Theater; 148 --; Gregorio Morales: Quantum Aesthetics and Quantum Theater; 151 --; Chapter 13; The Theater of Peter Brook as a Field of Study of Energy Movement and Interrelations; 155 --; Chapter 14; From Contemporary Science to the World of Art; 167 --; André Breton and the Logic of Contradiction; 167 --; Georges Mathieu and Aristotle's Cage; 169 --; Salvador Dali and Nuclear Mysticism; 170 --; Frédéric Benrath, Karel Appel, and René Huyghe; 174 --; Chapter 15; Vision of Reality and Reality of Vision; 177 --; Poincaré and Sudden Enlightenment; 178 --; Hadamard and Thinking without Words; 180 --; Kepler and the Living Earth; 182 --; Bohr and Complementarity; 184 --; Understanding the Reality of the Imaginary: The Imaginary and the Imaginal; 186 --; Chapter 16; Can Science Be a Religion?; 189 --; The Clowns of the Impossible; 189 --; Highlights of the New Barbarity; 190 --; Between the Anecdote and the Unspeakable; 191 --; The Sokal Affair Beyond Three Extremisms; 193 --; A Necessary isomorphism; 197 --; The End of Science?; 198 --; The Spiritual Dimension of Democracy: Utopia or Necessity?; 199 --; Chapter 17; The Hidden Third and the Multiple Splendor of Being; 203 --; Premodernity, Modernity, Postmodernity, and Cosmodernity as Different Visions of the Relation between the Subject and the Object; 203 --; Ladder of Divine Ascent and Levels of Being; 205 --; Toward a Unified Theory of Levels of Reality; 207 --; At the Threshold of New Renaissance; 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