Erich Jantsch

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Integral Theory

Integral theorists: Clare Graves, Don Beck Ken Wilber

Integral themes: AQAL Integral ecology Integral politics Integral psychology

Influences on integral theory: James Mark Baldwin Jean Gebser Jürgen Habermas Erich Jantsch Rupert Sheldrake

Integral artists: Alex Grey Stuart Davis Integral organizations: Integral Institute

Erich Jantsch (1929–1980) was an Austrian astrophysicist who wrote the book The Self-Organizing Universe: Scientific and Human Implications of the Emerging Paradigm of Evolution (1980). The Self-organizing Universe was influential among interdisciplinary proponents of biomimicry alternatives to understanding science like holism, co-evolution, and self-organization. It was extensively cited in Ken Wilber's integral philosophy book Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution.

[edit] Bibliography

• Technological forecasting in perspective, OECD, 1967.
• Technological planning and social futures, Wiley, 1972. ISBN 0-470-43997-1
• The Evolutionary Vision (Aaas Selected Symposium), Westview Press. ISBN 0-86531-140-4
• Design for Evolution: Self-Organization and Planning in the Life of Human Systems (The International Library of Systems Theory and Philosophy), George Braziller Inc, 1975. ISBN 0-8076-0758-4
• The Self-Organizing Universe: Scientific and Human Implications of the Emerging Paradigm of Evolution, New York: Pergamon Press, 1980. hardcover ISBN 0-08-024312-6 ; softcover ISBN 0-08-024311-8

[edit] External links

• Book cover at Kheper.net
• Excerpts from TSOU at Kheper.net
• Description of book contents at Principia Cybernetica