Changing Visions [Paperback]

Ervin Laszlo (Author), Robert Artigiani (Author), Allan Combs (Author), Vilmos Csanyi (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0275956776 | ISBN-13: 978-0275956776 | Publication Date: May 30, 1996

We all carry a picture of the world in our mind, but is that "map" an assuredly true layout of the reality that surrounds us? If not, how can we use it to guide our steps toward the 21st century and beyond without creating shocks and surprises that impair our well-being and threaten our survival? We shall not survive, either as individuals or as a species, if our maps fail to reflect accurately the nature of the world that surrounds us. The authors attempt, through reviewing the origins, development, and current changes in individual and social cognitive maps, to prompt readers to become more conscious of their own map, and hence be better able to adapt it to the exigencies of our changing world. The book ends with a vision of the global bio- and socio-sphere: the unified cognitive map which is emerging in laboratories and workshops of the new physics, the new biology, the new ecology, and the avant-garde branches of the social and historical sciences. But Changing Visions recognizes that these sciences alone cannot promote the formation of faithful maps of lived reality, and that religion, common sense, and even art can fill in and sharpen one's world-picture.

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Book Description

In this work the authors prompt us to become more conscious of our own cognitive map, and explain how it can be adapted to the exigencies of our changing world so that it can be better-used to guide our steps toward the 21st century.

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

ERVIN LASZLO is Rector, European Academy for Evolutionary Management and Applied Studies, Scientific Advisor to the Director-General of UNESCO, and author or coauthor of 51 books.

ROBERT ARTIGIANI is in the Department of History at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland.

ALLAN COMBS is Professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.

VILMOS CSANYI is in the Department of Behaviourial Genetics at the University of Budapest, Hungary.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Praeger Paperback (May 30, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0275956776
• ISBN-13: 978-0275956776
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,351,443 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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