Overcoming Modernity : Synchronicity and Image-Thinking

by Yasuo, Yuasa

• ISBN13: 9780791474020
• ISBN10: 079147402X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

In Overcoming Modernity, which contains the last writings from Yuasa, the prominent Japanese scholar reconsiders the modern Western paradigm of thinking and in its place proposes a more holistic worldview. An array of topics are examined, including the relationships between language, being, psychology, and logic; Jung's concept of synchronicity; the Yijing (Book of Changes); paranormal phenomena; physics and metaphysics; mind and body; and teleology. Through these explorations, engaging a wide range of Western and East Asian thought, Yuasa offers an alternative to the scientific worldview inherited from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This new paradigm involves the integration of space-and-time and mind-and-body, thematics brought together through what Yuasa calls "image-thinking," a mode of thinking that incorporates image-experience. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Yuasa Yasuo (1925-2005) was Professor Emeritus at Obirin University in Japan and the author of several books, including The Body, Self-Cultivation, and Ki-Energy and The Body: Toward an Eastern Mind-Body Theory, both also published by SUNY Press. At Temple University, Shigenori Nagatomo is Associate Professor of Comparative Philosophy and East Asian Buddhism and John W. M. Krummel teaches religion.

Table of Contents

Translator's Introduction	p. 1
Preface	p. 27
The Image-Thinking of Ancient People, East and West	p. 39
The Four Archai and the Human Soul	p. 39
A Comparison with the Image-Thinking in Ancient India	p. 41
The Chinese View of Nature Based on Qí-Energy [Jap., Ki:$$]	p. 46
The Study of "That Which Is Above Form" and Metaphysics	p. 49
Logic and Being: "What Is" and "That It Is"	p. 53
The Passive Understanding of "Being" [ari]	p. 57
The Eternal and the Changing	p. 60
The Future-Direction of Ethics and Physics	p. 63
Translator's Note	p. 65
Image-Thinking and the Understanding of "Being": The Psychological Basis of Linguistic Expression	p. 67
Chinese, Japanese, and Western Expressions for "Being"	p. 67
The Characteristics of Expressions in the Chinese Language	p. 71
The Relation between Logic and Psychology in the Linguistic Expressions of the Chinese and Western Languages	p. 76
Logic and Lived Experience	p. 81
The Cognition and Intuition of Living Nature	p. 86
Translator's Note	p. 95
What Is Synchronicity?	p. 97
Introduction	p. 97
The Overlap between the World of Spirit and the World of Objects	p. 98
Divination of the Yìj&ibar;ng and Its Worldview	p. 103
Parapsychology and Its Meaning	p. 109
Synchronicity and Contemporary Physics	p. 114
Nature's Psychoid Nature	p. 119
Synchronicity and the Movement of New Age Science	p. 120
Summary	p. 124
Postscript	p. 127
Translator's Note	p. 133
Life and Space-Time: Synchronicity and the Psychology of the Yìj&idot;ng	p. 135
Introduction	p. 135
The Divination of the Yìj&idot;ng and the Mind-Body Relation	p. 136
The Yìj&ibar;ng's Theory of Time	p. 140
The Theory of Time and the View of Nature	p. 144
The Traditional Views of Nature of the East and the West; Are Space and Time Separable?	p. 148
Space and the Energy Immanent in Time	p. 152
Translator's Note	p. 155
Synchronicity and Spiritualism	p. 157
The Birth of the Theory of Synchronicity	p. 157
A Reexamination of the Parapsychological Disputes	p. 163
"Meaningful Coincidence" and Human Life	p. 165
Conclusion	p. 170
Translator's Note	p. 177
Space-Time and Mind-Body Integration: The Resurrection of Teleology	p. 179
Contemporary Science and Eastern Thought	p. 179
Einstein and Bergson	p. 181
Is Time an Illusion?	p. 188
Ripening Time	p. 192
Synchronicity and the Collective Unconscious	p. 195
What Is Present: The Problem of Measurement	p. 198
Methodological Reflections on Science	p. 201
Physics and Metaphysics	p. 204
Summary	p. 205
Notes	p. 209
Bibliography	p. 231
Index	p. 239
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