Immersive Systemic Knowing by Raghav Rajagopalan

Author:Raghav Rajagopalan
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030491352
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

de Sousa Santos (2014) cuts to the underlying epistemic failure and consequent murder of all alternate epistemologies that marks the ‘march of progress’ of Western thinking; clearly institutionalised in the dominant use of the English language for global discourse.

Heron believes that research inquiry must be seen as ‘…an intersubjective space , a common culture, in which the use of language is grounded in a deep context of non-linguistic meanings, the lifeworld of shared experience, necessarily presupposed by agreement about the use of language itself’ (1996, p. 11). When systems thinking develops an elaborate superstructure of specialised concepts and terminologies and privileges understanding in rational and propositional terms, it denies this possibility.

Abram (1996) raises the question:How did Western civilization become so estranged from nonhuman nature, so oblivious to the presence of other animals and the earth, that our current lifestyles and activities contribute daily to the destruction of whole ecosystems— whole forests, river valleys, oceans—and to the extinction of countless species? …How did civilization break out of, and leave behind, the animistic or participatory mode of experience known to all native, place-based cultures? (1996, p. 137).

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