Morris Berman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785197 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Morris Berman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Morris |
| FAMILY NAME | Berman |
| SIGNATURE | BERMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | 8015 Greenwood Avenue N., #305, Seattle, WA 98103. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Wandering God
Wandering God is the third of a remarkable trilogy on the evolution and diversity of the patterns thought and consciousness of Homo sapiens through the ages. Their manifestation, in spirituality and corporeality, were the themes of the previous two books, respectively, The Reenchantment of the World (1981) and Coming to Our Senses (1989). What Berman deals with in the present book, with impressive intellectual scope and erudition, is the shift of…
Wandering God
The
Systems theory, and holistic thinking in general, has become very popular as a worldview and mode of explanation in recent years because of a number of epistemological advantages it displays over positivist science and the mechanical paradigm. It has been applied to the analysis of major historical changes, the etiology of certain diseases, as well as to ecology and basic perceptions of the earth. Yet a closer look at the systemic or holistic par…
Coming to Our Senses
The Roots of Reality
The Tree of Knowledge, by Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, is a landmark attempt to integrate biology, cognition, and epistemology into a single science, reversing the dualism of fact and value, and of observer and observed, that has haunted the West since the seventeenth century. The authors see perception as a reciprocal and interacting phenomenon, a "dance of congruity" that takes place between a living entity and its environment. This,…
The Cybernetic Dream of the Twenty-First Century
Over the last few decades, several critics of modern science have been able to demonstrate that science is not a value-free instrument for ascertaining truth, as many believe, but is rather a mode of cognition whose very "neutrality" constitutes its bias. That is to say, science is ultimately zweckrational (purposive-rational); it projects a world of pure form that can be bent to any purpose. In the last analysis, "value-free" really means "posse…
Science and Social Passion
Michael Hunter, Science and Society in Restoration England. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981,233 pp., plus introduction and appendix. John Bowle, John Evelyn and His World. A Biography. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981, 277 pp. Brian Easlea, Witch-hunting, Magic and the New Philosophy. An Introduction to Debates of the Scientific Revolution, 1450-1750. Harvester Press, Brighton, Sussex and Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, New …
The reenchantment of the world
Social Change and Scientific Organisation
Science in Victorian Manchester
The Emergence of Agricultural Science
The Early Years of the Royal Institution 1799-1810
It is generally agreed that English science in the eighteenth century was not a very inspired affair. With the death of Newton in 1 727, the 'scientific spirit', asJ. T. Merz termed it, passed from England to France.' Certainly, there was no lack of individual talent, as the names of Hales, Cavendish, Priestley, Herschel, and Maskelyne might indicate; but there was no scientific community as such. While the French were busy developing a scientifi…
The Cybernetic Dream of the Twenty-First Century
Over the last few decades, several critics of modern science have been able to demonstrate that science is not a value-free instrument for ascertaining truth, as many believe, but is rather a mode of cognition whose very "neutrality" constitutes its bias. That is to say, science is ultimately zweckrational (purposive-rational); it projects a world of pure form that can be bent to any purpose. In the last analysis, "value-free" really means "posse…
The Early Years of the Royal Institution 1799-1810
It is generally agreed that English science in the eighteenth century was not a very inspired affair. With the death of Newton in 1 727, the 'scientific spirit', asJ. T. Merz termed it, passed from England to France.' Certainly, there was no lack of individual talent, as the names of Hales, Cavendish, Priestley, Herschel, and Maskelyne might indicate; but there was no scientific community as such. While the French were busy developing a scientifi…
The Roots of Reality
The Tree of Knowledge, by Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, is a landmark attempt to integrate biology, cognition, and epistemology into a single science, reversing the dualism of fact and value, and of observer and observed, that has haunted the West since the seventeenth century. The authors see perception as a reciprocal and interacting phenomenon, a "dance of congruity" that takes place between a living entity and its environment. This,…
Social Change and Scientific Organisation
The Early Years of the Royal Institution 1799-1810
It is generally agreed that English science in the eighteenth century was not a very inspired affair. With the death of Newton in 1 727, the 'scientific spirit', asJ. T. Merz termed it, passed from England to France.' Certainly, there was no lack of individual talent, as the names of Hales, Cavendish, Priestley, Herschel, and Maskelyne might indicate; but there was no scientific community as such. While the French were busy developing a scientifi…
The Emergence of Agricultural Science
Social Change and Scientific Organisation
Science in Victorian Manchester
The reenchantment of the world
Science and Social Passion
Michael Hunter, Science and Society in Restoration England. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981,233 pp., plus introduction and appendix. John Bowle, John Evelyn and His World. A Biography. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981, 277 pp. Brian Easlea, Witch-hunting, Magic and the New Philosophy. An Introduction to Debates of the Scientific Revolution, 1450-1750. Harvester Press, Brighton, Sussex and Humanities Press, Atlantic Highlands, New …
The Cybernetic Dream of the Twenty-First Century
Over the last few decades, several critics of modern science have been able to demonstrate that science is not a value-free instrument for ascertaining truth, as many believe, but is rather a mode of cognition whose very "neutrality" constitutes its bias. That is to say, science is ultimately zweckrational (purposive-rational); it projects a world of pure form that can be bent to any purpose. In the last analysis, "value-free" really means "posse…
The Roots of Reality
The Tree of Knowledge, by Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, is a landmark attempt to integrate biology, cognition, and epistemology into a single science, reversing the dualism of fact and value, and of observer and observed, that has haunted the West since the seventeenth century. The authors see perception as a reciprocal and interacting phenomenon, a "dance of congruity" that takes place between a living entity and its environment. This,…
Coming to Our Senses
The
Systems theory, and holistic thinking in general, has become very popular as a worldview and mode of explanation in recent years because of a number of epistemological advantages it displays over positivist science and the mechanical paradigm. It has been applied to the analysis of major historical changes, the etiology of certain diseases, as well as to ecology and basic perceptions of the earth. Yet a closer look at the systemic or holistic par…
Wandering God
Wandering God
Wandering God is the third of a remarkable trilogy on the evolution and diversity of the patterns thought and consciousness of Homo sapiens through the ages. Their manifestation, in spirituality and corporeality, were the themes of the previous two books, respectively, The Reenchantment of the World (1981) and Coming to Our Senses (1989). What Berman deals with in the present book, with impressive intellectual scope and erudition, is the shift of…
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