Wholeness and the Implicate Order. First Edition, Second Correction

Bohm, David

ISBN 10: 0710003668 / ISBN 13: 9780710003669

Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1980

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Near Fine. See scans and description. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980 (1981). Second Correction (1981) of the First Edition. Octavo, 224 pp., deep navy boards with silver spine imprinting, purple dustjacket with circle design. A Near Fine book - fine but for a rubber stamped $25 dollar price on the half-title (see scans) - in a Fine jacket. In protective mylar. See all scans. This is the third version of the first edition, bearing corrections made (apparently) in 1981 (see scan of copyright page). Celebrated quantum physicist David Bohm's relatively concise offering of his notions regarding the implicate and explicate orders of reality - that the apparent specificness of qualities such as location, and the perceived separateness of things (whether particles or people), that being the explicate order, may in fact be only a semi-autonomous, and certainly temporary, reflection of a greater, underlying, undivided whole (the implicate order). Bohm's thinking in this regard is part of what has led to a variety of hypotheses about the universe, as perceived by us, being holographic. L10n.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Wholeness and the Implicate Order. First Edition, Second Correction
• Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul, London
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0710003668
• ISBN 13: 9780710003669
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sciences 1: Physics, Astronomy, Mathematics
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

David Bohm was one of the foremost scientific thinkers and philosophers of our time. Although deeply influenced by Einstein, he was also, more unusually for a scientist, inspired by mysticism. Indeed, in the 1970s and 1980s he made contact with both J. Krishnamurti and the Dalai Lama whose teachings helped shape his work. In both science and philosophy, Bohm's main concern was with understanding the nature of reality in general and of consciousness in particular. In this classic work he develops a theory of quantum physics which treats the totality of existence as an unbroken whole. Writing clearly and without technical jargon, he makes complex ideas accessible to anyone interested in the nature of reality.

Review

Bohm is a tremendously exciting thinker, and this is undoubtedly a book of the first importance -- Colin Wilson

I find his concept of wholeness extraordinarily appealing... -- John P. Wiley Jnr., Smithsonian