The Third Culture

The Third Culture
Participatory Science as the Basis for a Healing Culture
by John Michael Barnes
Adonis Press, 2009
138 pages; paperback; $15
ISBN: 9780932776402

Participatory methods are emerging as a necessary next step in the development of science. As inaugurated by Goethe, further developed by Steiner, and independently conceived of by Polanyi, this new scientific approach calls for conscious inner participation in the processes and qualities of the external world and finally comes to see them as lawful manifestations of creative forces that are inaccessible to the methods of materialistic science. Such insights into the dynamic principles of life, soul, and spirit provide the basis for the practical realization of a healing culture.


Contents

Foreword

Participatory Science

The Crisis of Objectivism

From Monism to Dualism

Michael Polanyi’s Personal Knowledge

Goethe

Steiner

Anthroposophy

Art

Applied Participatory Science

Toward a Third Culture

Notes