Review Narrative Universe by Gianluca Bocchi and Mauro Ceruti

The Narrative Universe Gianluca Bocchi, Mauro Ceruti,

Gianluca Bocchi, Mauro Ceruti

The Narrative Universe

Hampton Press, 2002

From Series Editor Alfonso Montuori's Foreword:

"The Narrative Universe was a disquisitional success in Italy, and has already been translated in several languages around the world. At present English-language readers can immerse themselves in a book that represents a milestone in the intellectual development of two thoughtful, original, and encyclopedic scholars. […]
The Narrative Universe can be read on several levels. It is, on the surface, a fascinating and erudite overview of many of the most heady areas of scientific inquiry today. Information technology addresses fields as diverse as cosmology, linguistics, the philosophy of science, evolutionary theory, mythology, and paleontology. But it is too an account of how this research points to a new manner of agreement the world. The authors outline, for case, the importance of what they call the Darwinian revolution; the recognition that living species are their history. The implications of such a argument are enormously far-reaching, and the authors gradually unpack them in a sustained meditation about time, infinite, and knowledge. […]
The authors also take united states into the history of Europe, the conquest and destruction of "the New World", religious wars, and the quest for purity, whether racial, ethnic, religious, or ideological, the fear of pollution and consequent expulsions, exclusions, and rites of purification and cleansing, culminating in the ongoing scourge of "indigenous cleansing". […]
The Narrative Universe spans many dissimilar disciplines, crossing the historical carve up between the man and natural sciences. […] Going beyond disciplinary fragmentation without building i overarching, totalizing and homogenizing synthesis, The Narrative Universe creates a whole that advisedly reflects multiple and complex strands of its diverseness, rather than attempting to forcefulness them into a vacuous and mutilating "theory of everything". […] The authors provide us not only with a masterful overview of the new sciences, but also with new means of thinking, and new ways of inquiring into our origins: into the Narrative Universe."

The book has been published in Italian, English, Spanish, Portuguese.

Foreword by JEROME BRUNER

JIlya Prigogine's comment on the american edition of "Origini di storie" (The Narrative Universe)

"The Narrative Universe past Bocchi and Ceruti is fascinating to read. It is indeed a remarkable characteristic of modernistic scientific discipline that accept moved to a different view of nature which emphasizes the narrative chemical element levels of observation from high free energy physics to chemistry and biological science. Bocchi and Ceruti present a global and impressive view of this narrative aspect starting with mythology and the early history of humanity and going from there… The Narrative Universe is a unique book. Information technology volition be of great involvement for everyone who cares near the retentivity of the by besides equally humanity'southward position in the universe."

Jerome Bruner'south comment on the american edition of "Origini di storie" (The Narrative Universe)

"Bocchi and Ceruti provide an extraordinarily rich account of these contingent, umpredictable changes in evolution, in human culture and in the concrete universe […] and their conclusion is non that either the universe or humanity is at the terminate of some predetermined road, already known in advance, but, rather, in medias res, in the centre of a story."

Immanuel Wallerstein'southward comment on the american edition of "Origini di storie" (The Narrative Universe)

"The narrative universe is a wondrous book, whose very title is the message. The authors take us downward the highways and byways of the globe of knowledge, to tell us that nosotros live not just in a contingent universe but are engaged in the creation of contingent knowledges. We are forced to recollect about assumptions we never realized needed to be questioned. Information technology is a resolutely hopeful, creative work well-nigh a crewative universe."

RIANE EISLER'S COMMENT ON THE AMERICAN EDITION OF "ORIGINI DI STORIE" (THE NARRATIVE UNIVERSE)

"A remarkable piece of work of transdisciplinary scholarship. The Narrative Universe is a rich and fascinating work that offers a new perspective on evolution that emphasizes the importance of human choice and deportment, and the possibility for creating a partnership world."

JAMES OGILVY'S COMMENT ON THE AMERICAN EDITION OF "ORIGINI DI STORIE" (THE NARRATIVE UNIVERSE)

"A marvellous book in several senses: I marvel at Bocchi and Ceruti'south erudition, and at the grace with which they apply it. Here we have a masterful narrative well told most the history of consciousness, from the earliest dawnings of human awareness to the latest reflections on evolutionary theory almost our evolution."

BRIAN SWIMME'S Annotate ON THE AMERICAN EDITION OF "ORIGINI DI STORIE" (THE NARRATIVE UNIVERSE)

"Drawing from biology, complication science, cultural history, cosmology, linguistics, mythology, anthropology, too as the history of religions, literature, and twentieth century film, Bocchi and Ceruti take crafted our time's most comprehensive and compact survey of contemporary science. Their choice of scientists is unfailingly accurate, and their presentation is simultaneously through and articulate. Their book will exist most appreciated by individuals who are outside the globe of science, simply take an occasion wondered what the excitement is all about. Here, in a single volume, is a record of nigh of our century's greatest scientific triumphs."