Author: A-T. Tymieniecka
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: poiesis, life, analecta, husserliana, onto, soul, dialectic, light, darkness, passions, elemental
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 1992-07-31
List price: $299.00
ISBN-10: 0792316010
ISBN-13: 9780792316015

The dialectic of light and darkness studied in this collection of essays reveals itself as a primal factor of life as well as the essential element of the specifically human world. From its borderline position between physis and psyche, natural growth and techne, bios and ethos, it functions as the essential factor in all the sectors of life at large. We see its crucial role in all sectors of life while, prompted by man’s creative imagination, it enhances and spurs his vital as well as societal and spiritual life. This rare collection contains studies by Thomas Ryba, Krystina Górniak-Ko

Author: Frederick Steier (Editor)
Publisher: Imprint Academic
Keywords: cybernetics, second, order, auto, journal, poiesis, knowing, bateson, amp, human, gregory
Number of Pages: 182
Published: 2005-06-24
List price: $34.90
ISBN-10: 1845400321
ISBN-13: 9781845400323

Gregory Bateson’s work, intensely interdisciplinary, even transdisciplinary, in character, continues to touch others in fields as diverse as communication and ecology, anthropology and philosophy, family therapy and education, and mental and spiritual health. Bateson’s cybernetic epistemology forges a path of connection. The authors in this volume celebrate the Bateson Centennial, with contributions rooted in Bateson’s ideas and ideals. Although their homes lie in different intellectual realms, their work embodies Bateson’s interdisciplinary character. These essays offer both per

Authors:Ranulph Glanville, Soren Brier,
Publisher: Imprint Academic
Keywords: cybernetics, amp, knowing, human, order, auto, poiesis, second, journal, heinz, von, foerster
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-04-18
List price: $29.90
ISBN-10: 0907845916
ISBN-13: 9780907845911

A special double issue of the journal Cybernetics and Human Knowing dedicated to the life and work of Heinz Von Foerster. For details see table of contents.