Overcoming Modernity : Synchronicity and Image-Thinking
, by Yasuo, YuasaNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780791474020 | 079147402X
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 1/1/2009
In Overcoming Modernity, which contains the last writings from Yuasa, the prominent Japanese scholar reconsiders the modern Western paradigm of thinking and in its place proposes a more holistic worldview. An array of topics are examined, including the relationships between language, being, psychology, and logic; Jung's concept of synchronicity; the Yijing (Book of Changes); paranormal phenomena; physics and metaphysics; mind and body; and teleology. Through these explorations, engaging a wide range of Western and East Asian thought, Yuasa offers an alternative to the scientific worldview inherited from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This new paradigm involves the integration of space-and-time and mind-and-body, thematics brought together through what Yuasa calls "image-thinking," a mode of thinking that incorporates image-experience. Book jacket.