Closure: A Story of Everything

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ISBN: 9780415011389 | 0415011388
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 7/23/2001

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Lawson provides a comprehensive look at the history of western thought, the evolution of science and its attempts to provide us with a "theory of everything" and an evaluation of the relativistmultiple truths.He discusses why this scientific mind-set no longer works and why relativist truths are no longer sustainable. He then offers a new theory to help us better understand ourselves and our world.

Preface

Prologue

xiii

The history of a mistake

xiv

The contemporary predicament

The Great Project and its failure

An illusory solution

A way foreward

xxxvii

The world as not-thing

The task

Part I The Structure of Closure

(58)

Introduction: The making of reality and ourselves

An outline framework

(24)

Openness and closure

The mechanism of closure: material and texture

The characteristics of closure

Systems of closure: body and mind

(22)

The purpose of closure

(10)

Part II Language as Closure

(58)

Introduction: The question of language

Language and the world

(15)

Language and itself

(12)

The organisation of space

(11)

Language, truth, and the failure of closure

100

(17)

Part III The Search for Closure: Science, logic, and mathematics

117

(76)

Introduction: Our stories of the world

The individual and the search for closure

119

(14)

The structure of knowledge

133

(11)

The closures of science

144

(21)

What is the world made of?

165

(12)

Strategies for closure

177

(10)

The closure of `closure'

187

(6)

Part IV The Search for Openness: Art, religion, and the unknown

193

(56)

Introduction: The search for openness and the process of closure

The edge of the world

201

(4)

Art and the avoidance of closure

205

(21)

Painting

The photograph

The text

Naming the unnameable

226

(23)

Religion

Philosophy

Openness and self-reference

Part V The Politics of Closure

249

(76)

Introduction: Society and power

The social and political character of personal space

251

(7)

Stories of desire

258

(8)

The first power relationship

266

(15)

Social power relations: repetition and rationality

281

(10)

The structure of social control: closures of authority

291

(14)

The organisation of society: institutional space

305

(15)

Society, change, and dreams of utopia

320

(5)

Epilogue

325

(3)

Acknowledgements

328

(2)

Notes

330

(28)

Index

358

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