The Hidden Connections: A Science for Sustainable Living

by Fritjof Capra

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A fierce attack on globalism - and a manifesto for change - by one of the world's leading scientific writers. Contemporary scientific discoveries indicate that all of life - from the most primitive cells, up to human societies, corporations and nation-states, even the global economy - is organized along the same basic patterns and principles: those of the network. However, the new global economy differs in important aspects from the networks of life: whereas everything in a living network show more has a function, globalism ignores all that cannot give it an immediate profit, creating great armies of the excluded. The global financial network also relies on advanced information technologies - it is shaped by machines, and the resulting economic, social and cultural environment is not life-enhancing but life-degrading, in both a social and an ecological sense. show less

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This is great although I can't quite put my finger on it. It is a great introduction into the sea changes in thought that I am sure will characterize our age in 1000 years. The big most accessible message for me is the systems biology notion, the notion that even as the genome is now in a database, our scientists see a much more complex and constantly evolving and recombinant world, rather than a rigid deterministic one which would make the future so much easier (and dangerous). Funny, now many educated people view biology and genetics as deterministic, but that will change as we all learn to speak every day of complexity theory and many other delightful liberating recombinant notions. Read this one too, but slowly and don't be too show more pedantic about it. Capra is one of my favourites and I have read a few others. show less
Together with "The web of life", one of the best essays about how living beings develop themselves, evolve and fit in the regulation of the global ecosystem. Brilliently written, the author explains different theories recently developped that fit between themselves like the pieces of a puzzle
this is a grat book for use by students or others interested in thinking the actual stage of the human presence in the world.
some topics like sustainability and eco-development find here some very important lessons.I used this book in my research works (I am an environmental engineering student)and I noticed it presents many up-to-date texts,wich contributed very much for my understandig of a lot of the relations between humans and the world and life itself.Great.
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In zijn nieuwste boek De eenheid van leven presenteert Fritjof Capra, de wereldberoemde auteur van o.m. De tao van fysica, een nieuw begrip van wat leven eigenlijk is. De mens moet zich deel weten van het grote geheel en daarnaar handelen. Globalisering, biotechnologie en ecologische bewustwording zijn trends die ingrijpen in de levende netwerken waarvan ook de mens onderdeel is. Capra laat zien hoe het biologische en het sociale leven samenhangen. Vanuit zijn wetenschappelijk én spiritueel gedreven visie, schildert hij een indrukwekkend panorama van de eenheid van leven.

Capra heeft uiteindelijk een positieve boodschap: de mensheid als geheel, maar ook elk individu, kan keuzes maken tussen de kansen en bedreigingen die de toekomst show more brengt. Wij kunnen tegengestelde ontwikkelingen met elkaar verzoenen om het leven op deze planeet te behouden en te versterken.
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De grondgedachte van dit nieuwste boek van Capra is eenvoudig. (1) Het fundamentele organisatiepatroon van het leven, biologisch, cognitief en sociaal, is het netwerk. (2) Twee snel veranderende netwerken zullen de nabije toekomst domineren: globalisering van het kapitaal en wat hij noemt ecodesign. (3) Deze twee ontwikkelingen liggen momenteel op ramkoers, en daar moeten we wat aan doen. De rest van het boek is gevuld met grote hoeveelheden feitenmateriaal, waarvan de relevantie en de samenhang niet altijd duidelijk is. Bevat noten, literatuurlijst en register.
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> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Capra-Les-Connexions-invisibles/36575

> Les Connexions invisibles, où Fritjof Capra, auteur fameux du Tào de la physique, applique, trente ans plus tard, la même intelligence face à la complexité des systèmes vivants et au défi du développement durable, éd. Le Rocher.
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Grasman, Gerard (Translator)
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Canonical title*
De eenheid van leven
Original title
The Hidden Connections: Integrating the Biological, Cognitive, and Social Dimensions of Life Into a Science of Substainability
Alternate titles*
De eenheid van leven : de ontdekking van de verborgen overeenkomsten tussen het biologische, het psychologische en het sociale leven
Original publication date
2002
Original language
English
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Science & Nature, Nonfiction, Philosophy, General Nonfiction
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191Philosophy and PsychologyModern western philosophyPhilosophy of United States and Canada
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BP605 .N48 .C365Philosophy, Psychology and ReligionIslam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc.Islam. Bahai Faith. Theosophy, etc.Other beliefs and movements
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