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** [[Dialectic of Enlightenment]]
** [[Dialectic of Enlightenment]]
===Specific Books on the Theme of the Evolution of Consciousness Through Time===
List of readings inspired by John David Ebert. Ebert has organized these recommended readings in 2 pairs: Steiner and Aurobindo focus directly on the spiritual aspects; Neumann and Gebser on the psychological; and de Chardin and Arthur Young, on the physical/scientific plane.
===='''Intro:'''====
* The [[Evolution of Consciousness as a Planetary Imperative]]: An Integration of Integral Views. By Jennifer Gidley. INTEGRAL REVIEW 5, 2007
[https://www.academia.edu/197841/The_Evolution_of_Consciousness_as_a_Planetary_Imperative_An_Integration_of_Integral_Views]: ; strongly recommended book-length attempt at comparison of the evolutionary narratives of Rudolf Steiner, Jean Gebser, and Ken Wilber.
'''The authors:'''
(they are treated more fully in other sections of the bibliography; this is a short specialized list)
====[[Rudolf Steiner]]====
* Book: An Outline of Esoteric Science.
* Video: [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-UEWTEQOYufkqKLgfwkSSDsnP8nT12Nk John David Ebert on Rudolf Steiner's Outline of Esoteric Science]: playlist
* Outline: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqCksr5w7AU part 1] ; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmYHHq25PMI part 2] ; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UL9gkHFb5UA Creation myth: Moon]
====[[Sri Aurobindo]]====
* Introductory Book: Satprem on [[Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness]]
* Book: The [[Life Divine]]
* Video: [[John David Ebert on Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine]]
====[[Eric Neumann]]====
* Book: The [[Origins and History of Consciousness]]
* Details: [[Steiner’s Research Methodology]]
====[[Jean Gebser]]====
* Intro: The [[Evolution of Consciousness According to Jean Gebser]]
* Video: [[John David Ebert on Jean Gebser's Ever-Present Origin]]
* Book: The [[Ever-Present Origin]]
* Details: [[Gebser’s Research Methodology]]
====[[Pierre Teilhard de Chardin]]====
* Book: The [[Phenomenon of Man]]
====[[Arthur Young]]====
* Video: [[John David Ebert on Arthur Young's The Reflexive Universe]]
* Book: The [[Reflexive Universe]]


[[Category:Civilizational Analysis]]
[[Category:Civilizational Analysis]]

Revision as of 14:29, 24 September 2023

Directory 2: Thematic Approaches on Civilizational History

Thread 7: The P2P/Commons View

See also our two structured bibliographies:

Books, read and recommended:

  • Beyond Civilization: The World's Four Great Streams of Civilization: Their Achievements, Their Differences and Their Future. Keith Chandler. Rivendell Publishing Company, 1992
  • How the Irish Saved Civilization. The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe. by Thomas Cahill. Bantam-Doubleday-Dell, 1995


Thread 8: Single Volume Treatments

  • Rushton Coulborn. The Origin of Civilized Societies. (1959)
  • The Fate of Empires. John Bagot Glubb
  • The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History. by J. R. McNeill (Author, Georgetown University), William H McNeill. Norton', 2003 [4]: a history of the formation of the cosmopolitan web, the communication's technologies that allow increasing interaction and integration of human communities up to the planetary scale.
  • Melko, M. (1969). The Nature of Civilizations. Boston, Mass: Porter Sargent


Thread 9: Understanding the Dark Side

Here we will discuss authors such as Rene Girard and Georges Bataille, and others such as 'Traditionalist' authors, who reject modernity as such.

The authors

Georges Bataille


Alexander Bard

[5]; contemporary exponent of a 'Dark Renaissance', mostly Nietzschean.


Alexander Dugin


Julius Evola

Traditionalist author.


Rene Girard


Rene Guenon


Heiner Muhlmann:


Thread 10: Civilizational Conflict and Collapse

TBD: Huntington, Tainter, Coker, etc ..


Thread 11: Other Important Authors


Critical Theory Approaches


Specific Books on the Theme of the Evolution of Consciousness Through Time

List of readings inspired by John David Ebert. Ebert has organized these recommended readings in 2 pairs: Steiner and Aurobindo focus directly on the spiritual aspects; Neumann and Gebser on the psychological; and de Chardin and Arthur Young, on the physical/scientific plane.


Intro:

[8]: ; strongly recommended book-length attempt at comparison of the evolutionary narratives of Rudolf Steiner, Jean Gebser, and Ken Wilber.


The authors:

(they are treated more fully in other sections of the bibliography; this is a short specialized list)

Rudolf Steiner


Sri Aurobindo


Eric Neumann


Jean Gebser


Pierre Teilhard de Chardin


Arthur Young

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