Laying the Ladder Down: The Emergence of Cultural Holism

by Betty Jean Craige

Book Overview

This timely and provocative book examines a fundamental shift in contemporary Western thought: the replacement of the traditional dualistic and hierarchical model of reality by a holistic one. Betty Jean Craige traces the emergence of this new paradigm to Charles Darwin, whose evolutionary theory exploded the idea of a fixed natural hierarchy and opened the way for a more egalitarian vision of human society as an evolving system of interdependent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087023806X
• ISBN13: 9780870238062
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"