The Wholeness of Nature: Goethe's Way Toward a Science of Conscious Participation in NatureWhereas most readers are familiar with Goethe as a poet and dramatist, few are familiar with his scientific work. In this brilliant book, Henri Bortoft (who began his studies of Goethean science with J. G. Bennett and David Bohm) introduces the fascinating scientific theories of Goethe. He succeeds in showing that Goethe's way of doing science was not a poet's folly but a genuine alternative to the dominant scientific paradigm. Bortoft shows that a different, "gentler" kind of empiricism is possible than that demanded by the dualizing mind of modern technological science and demonstrates that Goethe's participatory phenomenology of a new way of seeing--while far from being a historical curiosity--in fact proposes a practical solution to the dilemmas of contemporary, postmodern science. If you read only one book on Goethan science, this should be the one |
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User Review - nobodhi - LibraryThingbesides matthei [sic?] which is out of print, where to begin with goethe's scientific studies? maybe this. in any event, goethe as scientist is not to be (dis)missed without first regarding the mountain he left us. Read full review
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 3 |
Introduction | 29 |
Making the Phenomenon Visible | 36 |
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| Title | The Wholeness of Nature: Goethe's Way Toward a Science of Conscious Participation in Nature Goethean Science Series Renewal in science |
| Author | Henri Bortoft |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Lindisfarne Press, 1996 |
| ISBN | 0940262797, 9780940262799 |
| Length | 407 pages |
| Subjects | › Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects |
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