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This book brings the parallels between quantum physics and ancient Asian traditions - Daoism and Buddhism - to an investigation of mind, action and strategy in conditions of radical uncertainty. Engaging with both theory and real-world problems, it explores what it might mean to successfully navigat...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fierke, K. M. (Karin M.) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2022.
Colección:Bristol studies in international theory
Temas:
International relations > Philosophy.
Quantum theory > Philosophy.
Taoism > Philosophy.
Buddhism > Philosophy.
Théorie quantique > Philosophie.
Taoïsme > Philosophie.
Bouddhisme > Philosophie.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover
  • Series page
  • Snapshots from Home: Mind, Action and Strategy in an Uncertain World
  • Copyright information
  • Dedication
  • Table of contents
  • List of Figures and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introductions
  • Repositioning the Apparatus
  • Quantum social science
  • Global international relations
  • Cultural appropriation
  • The apparatus
  • Repositioning
  • Snapshots from home
  • Snapshots from different angles
  • Getting to Know the Apparatus
  • The parallel
  • Real and non-real
  • Mind
  • Action
  • Strategy
  • Contrasts and parallels
  • Entangled in language
  • Science and mysticism
  • Science and culture
  • Conclusion
  • Section I Impermanence
  • Snapshot 1 Self/ No- Self
  • Impermanence and self
  • Turning toward the relational self
  • Impermanence and motion
  • Two truths
  • The illusory self
  • Ceasing the proliferation of concepts
  • The collective self
  • Conclusion
  • Section II Complementarity and Yinyang
  • Snapshot 3 Action/ No Action
  • Environment and nature
  • The Dao and nature
  • Dao and qi
  • Non-presence/presence
  • Wuwei
  • Method, mind and action
  • Conclusion
  • Snapshot 4 War/ No War
  • Strategy as artscience
  • Destruction or deference
  • Sun Tzu's strategy
  • The rhythms of nature
  • The reversal of opposites
  • Leadership and planning
  • The emotional dynamics of war
  • Navigating yinyang
  • Knowing the enemy
  • Knowing the self
  • Conclusion
  • Section III Entanglement and Karma
  • Snapshot 5 Navigating a Participatory Universe
  • Things and actions
  • Measuring human intra- actions
  • Desireless action
  • Karmayoga and desireless action
  • Karma and fruits of action
  • Self-reform and desireless action
  • Seen and unseen
  • Self/ self
  • Conclusion
  • Snapshot 6 What Goes Around Comes Around
  • Things and relationships
  • Consciousness and property
  • Property and the appropriating I
  • The cycle of samsāra
  • Seen and unseen
  • Intention- action-fruits
  • Conclusion
  • Endings/Beginnings
  • At Home in the Universe
  • Science and culture
  • This is part of me and I am part of it
  • Mind, action and strategy
  • Houses and homes
  • Seeing the way home
  • References
  • Index
  • Back Cover

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