From Modernity to Cosmodernity: Science, Culture, and Spirituality

Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Chapter One: From Shattered Culture Toward Transculture
	The Christian Origin of Modern Science
	Do Science and Culture Have Something in Common?
	The Transcultural and the Mirror of the Other
	The Transreligious Attitude and the Presence of the Sacred
Chapter Two: Contemporary Physics and the Western Tradition
	Tradition and Traditions
	Science and Tradition: Two Poles of a Contradiction
	A Possible Bridge between Sciences and Tradition: The Rationality of the World
	Describing God’s Being….
	Movement and Discontinuity: The Eternal Genesis of Reality
	Scientific Thinking and Symbolic Thinking: Icons and Thêmata
	A Necessary Encounter
Chapter Three: The Grandeur and Decadence of Scientism
	The Classical Vision of the World and the Death of Man
	Modern Mahabharata-like Drama: The Quantum Vision of the World
Chapter Four: The Valley of Astonishment: The Quantum World
	About the Difficulties of the Journey
	Planck, Discontinuity, and the Quantum Revolution
	The Particle and Quantum Spontaneity
	Heisenberg’s Relations and the Failure of Classic Determinism
	The Multiplicity of Quantum Values and the Role of Observation
	Quantum Vacuum: A Full Vacuum
	Quantum Nonseparability
Chapter Five: The Endless Route of the Unification of the World
	Is a Single Energy the Source of the World’s Diversity?
	The Final Theory: Superstrings?
	The Unification of Heaven and Earth
	Can Everything Be Unified?
	Everything Is Vibration
	The Mystery Theorists
	Seekers of Truth
Chapter Six: The Strange Fourth Dimension
Chapter Seven: The Bootstrap Principle and the Uniqueness of our World
	Eddington and the Epistemological Principles
	Unity and Self-Consistency: The Bootstrap Principle
	Is There a Nuclear Democracy?
	The Bootstrap and the Anthropic Principle
	Methodological Considerations
Chapter Eight: Complexity and Reality
	The Emergence of Complex Plurality
	Some Reflections on Systemic Thinking
	Systemic Thinking and Quantum Physics
	Levels of Reality
	Is There a Cosmic Bootstrap?
	Evolution and Involution
Chapter Nine: The Human Being: The Most Perfect of All Signs
	Natural Language and Scientific Language
	Peirce and Spontaneity
	Invariance and Thirdness
	The Possibility of a Universal Language
Chapter Ten: Beyond Dualism
	A Stick Always Has Two Ends
	Stéphane Lupasco (1900–1988): The Herald of the Coming Third
	The Included Third
	The Ternary Dialectics of Reality
	Triadic Systemogenesis and the Three Matters
	Nonseparability and the Unity of the World
	The Nature of Space-Time
	Is Lupasco a Prophet of the Irrational?
	The Experienced Third
Chapter Eleven: The Psychophysical Problem
	Reduction and Reductionism
	The Coincidentia Oppositorum and Hermetic Irrationalism
	The Core of the Problem: We Are Too Deeply Immersed in the Seventeenth Century
	The Most Important Task of Our Time: A New Idea about Reality
	New Perspectives in the Ternary-Quaternary Debate
	Umberto Eco’s Logical and Epistemological Error
Chapter Twelve: From the Quantum World to Ionesco’s Antitheater and Quantum Aesthetics
	For a Yes or for a No
	Ionesco and the Non-Aristotelian Theater
	Gregorio Morales: Quantum Aesthetics and Quantum Theater
Chapter Thirteen: The Theater of Peter Brook as a Field of Study of Energy, Movement, and Interrelations
Chapter Fourteen: From Contemporary Science to the World of Art
	André Breton and the Logic of Contradiction
	Georges Mathieu and Aristotle’s Cage
	Salvador Dali and Nuclear Mysticism
	Frédéric Benrath, Karel Appel, and René Huyghe
Chapter Fifteen: Vision of Reality and Reality of Vision
	Poincaré and Sudden Enlightenment
	Hadamard and Thinking without Words
	Kepler and the Living Earth
	Bohr and Complementarity
	Understanding the Reality of the Imaginary: The Imaginary and the Imaginal
Chapter Sixteen: Can Science Be a Religion?
	The Clowns of the Impossible
	Highlights of the New Barbarity
	Between the Anecdote and the Unspeakable
	The Sokal Affair: Beyond Three Extremisms
	A Necessary Isomorphism
	The End of Science?
	The Spiritual Dimension of Democracy: Utopia or Necessity?
Chapter Seventeen: The Hidden Third and the Multiple Splendor of Being
	Premodernity, Modernity, Postmodernity, and Cosmodernity as Different Visions of the Relation between the Subject and the Object
	Ladder of Divine Ascent and Levels of Being
	Toward a Unified Theory of Levels of Reality
	At the Threshold of New Renaissance
Notes
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index