Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity

by Basarab Nicolescu

Unifies science and the sacred based on what we've learned from Quantum physics.

Genres: Philosophy

169 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2001

About the author

Basarab Nicolescu is an honorary theoretical physicist at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris.

Reviews

[Claudete]

"Tanto efetividade como afetividade deveriam ser as palavras de ordem de um projeto de civilização proporcional aos desafios do nosso tempo" (p. 94)

[Alex Lee]

This is the second time I've read this. The tags I put on this book reflect some of its main themes, but it means to be expansive enough to comment on any discipline. What is impressive is its ambition but it is clearly written from someone who sees the overarching complexity in everything even if he lacks the vocabulary and specific expertise to comment adequately on each of those topics and how they can be transformed through a transcendisciplinary approach. In terms of Michael Commons;s model of complexity hierarchy, Nicolescu means to create a new paradigm for study, or at least one that will be able to give birth to new paradigms.

Its interesting from a standpoint but too general to be really useful.

[Víctor Bermúdez]

Sommaire

Pour éviter tout malentendu
Demain il sera trop tard
Grandeur et décadence du scientisme
Physique quantique et niveaux de Réalité
Un bâton a toujours deux bouts
L'émergence de la pluralité complexe
Une nouvelle vision du monde : la transdisciplinarité 25
Transdisciplinarité et unité ouverte du monde 30
Mort et résurrection de la Nature
Homo sui transcendentalis
Techno-Nature et cyberespace
Féminisation sociale et dimension poétique de l'existence
Du culte de la personnalité
Science et culture : au delà des deux cultures 60
Le transculturel et le miroir de l'Autre
La transdisciplinarité - déviance et dérives
Rigueur, ouverture et tolérance
Attitude transreligieuse et présence du sacré
Evolution transdisciplinaire de l'éducation
Vers un nouvel humanisme : le transhumanisme

Annexe
Charte de la Transdisciplinarité (Charter of Transdisciplinarity)

[Lance]

This book is a fascinating blend of mysticism, quantum physics, and epistemology. Many of Nicolescu's definitions and descriptions of transdisciplinarity are very useful, especially for scholars working against disciplinarity. I didn't care much for some of the idealism, mostly because I found it unuseful methodologically. Even so, there were many unexpected turns of thought can potentially lead to new ways of viewing the world -- and new models for academia.

[Fabio Marzocca]

My review on my blog - click here