Critiquing the reductionistic Cartesian view that everything can be studied in parts to understand the whole, he encourages a holistic approach. Using Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions as a stepping stone, the book explores parallels between new paradigm thinking in science and in religion the authors posit that, together, these new paradigms offer remarkably compatible views about the universe.Ĭapra advocates that Western culture abandon conventional linear thought and the mechanistic views of Descartes. In 1991 Capra co-authored Belonging to the Universe with David Steindl-Rast, a Benedictine monk. The film is loosely based on his book, The Turning Point. He is fluent in German, English, French and Italian.Ĭapra contributed to the screenplay for the 1990 movie Mindwalk, starring Liv Ullmann, Sam Waterston and John Heard. After touring Germany in the early 1980s, Capra co-wrote Green Politics with author Charlene Spretnak in 1984. The Tao of Physics asserts that both physics and metaphysics lead inexorably to the same knowledge. He has written popular books on the implications of science, notably The Tao of Physics, subtitled An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism. Berkeley, and San Francisco State University. While at Berkeley, he was a member of the Fundamental Fysiks Group, founded in May 1975 by Elizabeth Rauscher and George Weissmann, which met weekly to discuss philosophy and quantum physics. He conducted research in particle physics and systems theory at the University of Paris (1966–1968), the University of California, Santa Cruz (1968–1970), the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (1970), Imperial College, London (1971–1974) and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (1975–1988). He is on the faculty of Schumacher College.Ĭapra is the author of several books, including The Tao of Physics (1975), The Turning Point (1982), Uncommon Wisdom (1988), The Web of Life (1996), and The Hidden Connections (2002), and co-author of The Systems View of Life (2014).īorn in Vienna, Austria, Capra attended the University of Vienna, where he earned his PhD in theoretical physics in 1966.

In 1995, he became a founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California.

Schumacher, Ken Wilber įritjof Capra (born February 1, 1939) is an Austrian-born American physicist, systems theorist and deep ecologist. Gregory Bateson, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, David Bohm, René Dubos, Stanislav Grof, Erich Jantsch, Carl Jung, Thomas Kuhn, Ervin Laszlo, James Lovelock, E.

The Turning Point by Fritjof Capra