Overcoming Modernity

<p><b>These last writings by Japanese philosopher Yuasa engage both Western and Eastern thought to reconsider modernity and offer an alternative more holistic paradigm.</b></p><p>In <i>Overcoming Modernity</i> 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. A wide range of topics are examined including the relationships between language being psychology and logic; Jung's concept of synchronicity; the <i>Yijing (Book of Changes)</i>; 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.</p>