| Description |
vii, 191 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Part I - The Metamophosis of the University -- 1. Towards the threshold of living form -- 2. Guidance into the sphere of the living whole -- 3. The metamorphosis of the university -- Part II - Foundations of a Tertiary Education in Goethean Science -- 4. The university curriculum and community -- 5. Gesture, plarity, intesification & metamorphosis -- 6. Exact sensory imagination, delicate empiricisim & the law of compensation of parts -- 7. Type, archetype & archetypal phenomenon -- Part III - The Economic Sphere: a Goethean Teaching Methodology -- 8. The metamorphosis of capital and the meaning of money |
| Summary |
Concern for the world today provides the impetus to ask of ourselves a profound question... how can our way of knowing, the very style of our thinking which informs our research and our teaching, come to express care, to reveal itself to be a deed and duty of care?' Basing this practical study on the human quality of care for the world around us, Nigel Hoffmann takes us to a threshold beyond which lies a true science of living form. Care, he says, springs from the whole human being - the thinking, heart and will - and is implicit in the scientific method of conscious inner participation in nature that derives from the work of the poet and scientist Goethe. The Goethean approach - a living form that unites science and art - is not an alternative to contemporary science but complements it. Artistic practice, says Hoffmann, is a guide across the threshold and into the sphere of the living whole. But artistic sensibility can be raised to a higher possibility of itself, allowing us to discover the faculties of cognitive feeling and cognitive will. The author calls for a grounding in Goethean science for all students as a preliminary to their specialist and professional studies. He introduces us to the concept of the metamorphosis of the university - from the doctoral ideal to the ideal of the whole human being - and concludes with a case study of the economic sphere and capital using Goethean methodology. This profound book indicates a transformative path for human culture and civilization in the 21st century. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibligraphical references |
| Subject |
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 -- Influence.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 -- Knowledge -- Science
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Alternative education.
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Education -- Philosophy.
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Education -- Social aspects -- Australia.
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| ISBN |
1855845830 (paperback) |
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9781855845831 (paperback) |
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