Capra, Fritjof - The Emerging New Culture
Social and Cultural Awareness
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27m
Best-selling author of The Tao of Physics and The Turning Point, physicist Fritjof Capra, Ph.D., discusses the new "wholistic" culture that has emerged in the late twentieth century. He argues that the biological sciences, quantum physics and systems theory will provide a theoretical foundation which will supercede the decaying culture based on a linear, mechanistic worldview.
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