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The Ever-Present Origin (Paperback)
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The Ever-Present Origin (Paperback)
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This English translation of Gebser's major work, Ursprung und
Gegenwart (Stuttgart, Deutsche Verlag, 1966), offers certain
fundamental insights which should be beneficial to any sensitive
scientist and makes it available to the English-speaking world for
the recognition it deserves. "The path which led Gebser to his new
and universal perception of the world is, briefly, as follows. In
the wake of materialism and social change, man had been described
in the early years of our century as the "dead end" of nature.
Freud had redefined culture as illness-a result of drive
sublimation; Klages had called the spirit (and he was surely
speaking of the hypertrophied intellect) the "adversary of the
soul," propounding a return to a life like that of the Pelasgi, the
aboriginal inhabitants of Greece; and Spengler had declared the
"Demise of the West" during the years following World War I. The
consequences of such pessimism continued to proliferate long after
its foundations had been superseded. It was with these
foundations-the natural sciences-that Gebser began. As early as
Planck it was known that matter was not at all what materialists
had believed it to be, and since 1943 Gebser has repeatedly
emphasized that the so-called crisis of Western culture was in fact
an essential restructuration.... Gebser has noted two results that
are of particular significance: first, the abandonment of
materialistic determinism, of a one-sided mechanistic-causal mode
of thought; and second, a manifest "urgency of attempts to discover
a universal way of observing things, and to overcome the inner
division of contemporary man who, as a result of his one-sided
rational orientation, thinks only in dualisms." Against this
background of recent discoveries and conclusions in the natural
sciences Gebser discerned the outlines of a potential human
universality. He also sensed the necessity to go beyond the
confines of this first treatise so as to include the humanities
(such as political economics and sociology) as well as the arts in
a discussion along similar lines. This was the point of departure
of The Ever-Present Origin. From In memoriam Jean Gebser by Jean
Keckeis
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