Humberto Maturana: Reflections on Bringing Forth Worlds
Publisher summary
This volume is grounded in a deep appreciation of the rich and cohesive constellation of ideas developed by Humberto Maturana which, taken as a whole, can be understood as a biocultural matrix of human understanding. As a way of thinking, these ideas comprise an epistemological shift that changes the way we regard 'reality' as we are compelled by his work to consider not only how we do what we do, but also how we know what we know.
The backgrounds of the contributing authors reveal how Maturana’s work resonates with a variety of domains that range from art to family therapy, from education to organizational life, and from biology to dialogue. At the same time, these authors offer transdisciplinary perspectives rooted in cybernetic understanding. The papers in this volume invite us to reflect on Maturana’s contributions to our ways of being in the world, and of constituting and living in the worlds we create.
Table of contents
Foreword
- Humberto Maturana Reflections on Bringing Forth Worlds
Articles
- Maturana, Art and Cybernetics
- Upsetting Apple Carts
- Reflections on Core Ideas of Humberto Maturana in Relation to The World Café
- Designing for Emergence: Creating Living Networks of Conversation Grounded in Love
- The Love That Was Not Recommended: Maturana’s Biology of Love
- Maturana’s Path of Objectivity-in-Parenthesis
- Humberto Maturana: Using His Biological System in the Social Domain
- How My Understanding of Languaging in Non- Speaking People With Autism Has Been Informed by Conversations With Humberto Maturana
- Consciousness: An Unresolved Question, and What Maturana Has to Say About It
- Animals and Humans Alike
- Power Arises Through Obedience A Conversation About the Years of Dictatorship in Chile, the Helplessness of Power, and the Freedom of the Individual
Column
- Second Order Cybernetics and the End and Beginning of Philosophy
ASC Pages
- Mutual Arisings: Conversations with Humberto
Book Review
- Leydesdorff’s Compass