For non-scientists it will provide a rare insight into the world of scientific endeavours for all readers alike this will be a useful synthesis of the histories of all branches of qualitative and quantitative enquiry.
For physicists the book is an instructive guide to why and how today's new science may affect tomorrow's society. His argument is clearly and strongly expressed, for a wide readership, presuming no prior knowledge of any branch of the sciences.
He writes that these paradigms are now inadequate to guide human behavior and policy with regard to modern technology and ecology, then argues that society needs to develop the concepts and insights of holism and systems theory to solve its complex problems. The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture is a 1982 book by Fritjof Capra, in which the author examines perceived scientific and economic crises through the perspective of systems theory.Ĭapra outlines and traces the history of science and economics, highlighting flaws in the Cartesian, Newtonian, and reductionist paradigms which have come to light in the context of contemporary empirical understanding of the physical sciences.
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