In this short and masterful volume, Mauro Ceruti, one of Italy’s leading philosophers of complexity, narrates the history of scientific thought and documents the tremendous changes of the past centuries. The result is not just the emergence of startling new information, but an excavation of our deepest assumptions, and the development of new ways of thinking about the world.
From evolution to cosmology to mythology, Ceruti takes us on a journey through history and across disciplinary perspectives to present a view of the world – and of human thought – that is creative, evolving, contingent, and open to possibilities.
The book has been published in Italian and English.
Foreword by ALFONSO MONTUORI
“This, Ceruti’s jewel, an inclusive search for the cognitive experience of our entire human species from its beginnings, welcomes a shiny new unpredictable planetary society. We are admonished to face the raw power of events, creative, destructive and confusing, that transpired over millennia on vast expanses of land and water among our endlessly contentious, cultish ancestors. I recommend you read how we might recover the wisdom of our far-flung stargazing deep-breathing elders for the new Earth order where scientific knowledge will be embraced but never again privileged.”
“Much has been written in the last 30 years that challenges the simplified world views of modern science and beyond that of all simplified evolutionary inevitabilities. Ceruti brings these critiques together in a magnificently clear way to make the case for evolutionary pluralism and unpredictable discontinuities. He preaches the gospel of creativity.”
“In this book Mauro Ceruti explores with clarity and fluency the changes that have transformed evolutionary theory from a narrow biological and scientific focus to a multi-faceted worldview, combining Logos with Mythos in a rich and re1evant conceptual fabric for the new emergent culture.”
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