The Evolutionary Outrider
The Impact of the Human Agent on Evolution, Essays honouring Ervin Laszlo
Published on 25. June 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-275-96409-2 (ISBN)
Description
The overriding challenge for our species during the 21st century, many believe, will be that of evolving...or becoming extinct. Can the theory of evolution be expanded into a source of guidance that could help our species save itself? This collection brings together the thinking of scholars in a wide range of fields in social as well as natural science directed to this end.
Moving beyond a critique of neo-Darwinism and sociobiology to explore the action implications of new theory-including Loye's reconstruction of the long ignored full vision of Charles Darwin and Laszlo's new QVI fifth field theory-essays explore the potential for the impact of self-organizing and self-regulating organism, of the biology of love, and the moral directional thrust of the human, as revealed in new discoveries in the fields of biology, psychology, brain research, sociology, economics, history, cultural evolution, and Darwinian re-evaluation. As such, the collection will be of interest to the educational community, the futurist community, and the more general global foresight community of concerned people.
Moving beyond a critique of neo-Darwinism and sociobiology to explore the action implications of new theory-including Loye's reconstruction of the long ignored full vision of Charles Darwin and Laszlo's new QVI fifth field theory-essays explore the potential for the impact of self-organizing and self-regulating organism, of the biology of love, and the moral directional thrust of the human, as revealed in new discoveries in the fields of biology, psychology, brain research, sociology, economics, history, cultural evolution, and Darwinian re-evaluation. As such, the collection will be of interest to the educational community, the futurist community, and the more general global foresight community of concerned people.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
487 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-275-96409-2 (9780275964092)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
DAVID LOYE is a social psychologist, futurist, and developer of a new theory of moral transformation. His many books include The Healing of a Nation which won the Anisfield-Wolfe award for the best scholarly book on race relations in 1971. A former member of the psychology faculty of Princeton University, Loye for nearly a decade was a professor in the research series and Director of Research for the Program on Psychosocial Adaptation and the Future at the UCLA School of Medicine. He is a co-founder of the Center for Partnership Studies, the Society for the Study of Chaos Theory in Psychology, and the General Evolution Research Group.
Content
Introduction: The Evolutionary Outrider by David Loye The Challenge for our Species in the 21st Century Manifesto of the Club of Budapest: An Excerpt by Ervin Laszlo One Man's Quest: A Brief History by Ervin Laszlo The General Evolution Research Group: A Brief History by David Loye The Impact of the Human Agent on Evolution Evolution: The Old View and the New View by Fritijof Capra Organism and Psyche in a Participatory Universe by Mae-Wan Ho On Brain, Conscious Experience, and Human Agency by Karl Pribram Toward an Evolutionary Systems Approach to Creativity: The Contribution of Ervin Laszlo by Alfonso Montuori Healing through the QVI-Field by Maria Sagi Quantum-Vacuum Interaction and Psychosocial Organization by Raymond Trevor Bradley Biological Evolution and Cultural Evolution: Toward a Planetary Consciousness by Mauro Ceruti and Telmo Pievani Human Intervention in Evolutionary Process Evolution Action Theory: A Brief Outline by David Loye Conscious Evolution: Cultural Transformation and Human Agency by Riane Eisler Social Interventions and the World Wide Web by Ralph Abraham Economics and Evolution: An Ethos for an Action Researcher by Hazel Henderson What Might Be the Next Stage in Cultural Evolution? by Paul H. Ray Commentary by Ervin Laszlo Introduction to Indexes Subject Indexes Name Indexes