Dancing with Sophia

Dancing with Sophia is the first book of essays to focus on the philosophical dimensions and implications of integral theory. A metatheory that organizes first order theories and disciplines into higher order modes of knowing and insight needed to address the complexity of today's world, integral theory has already impacted a wide range of disciplines, from psychology to business to religious studies to art. Included here are perspectives by scholars in the continental, comparativist, and process traditions who dive into integral theory's postmetaphysical claims in order to mine, extend, and critique its philosophical merits. On the verge of its own emergence, integral philosophy promotes modes of creative critical thought oriented toward the multidimensional flourishing of planetary well-being, andDancing with Sophia will be of interest to scholars in philosophy; religious studies; transpersonal, developmental, and humanist psychology; and more.

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Foreword: The Global-Historical Movement of Integral Thinking
Brian Schroeder

Introduction: Integral Philosophy on the Verge
Michael Schwartz and Sean Esbjorn-Hargens

Part I. Criticality and Normative Orientation

1. Integral Theory, Pragmatism, and the Future of Philosophy
Zachary Stein

2. Stages, States, and Modes of Existence in Integral Critical Theory
Martin Beck Matuštik

3. Tetra Call of the Good
Michael Schwartz

4.Nothing Matters vs. NothingMatters: How Integral Theory Addresses Nihilism
Michael E. Zimmerman

Part II. Wild Nature—Plural Touch

5. Heidegger and Integral Ecology: Toward an Intelligible Cosmos
David E. Storey

6. Dancing on the Verge: Schelling, Dōgen, and Integral Thinking
Jason M. Wirth

7. An Integral Touch: Philosophies for Pluralism, Realism, and Embodiment
Sam Mickey

Part III. Limits and Critique

8. Toward an Integral Ontological Pluralism: A Process-Oriented Critique of Integral Theory’s Evolutionary Cosmology
Zayin Cabot

9. Derrida and Wilber at the Crossroads of Metaphysics
Gregory Desilet

10. Ontological and Epistemic Considerations for Integral Philosophy: Toward a Critical Realist Integral Theory
Nicholas Hedlund

11. Embodied Realisms and Integral Ontologies: Toward Self-Critical Theories 311
Tom Murray

12. Making Sense of Everything? Integral Postmetaphysics and the Theological Turn in Continental Philosophy
Cameron Stewart Rees Freeman

Part IV: Philosophy and Meta-Philosophy

13. Sophia Speaks: An Integral Grammar of Philosophy
Bruce Alderman

Afterword: Realism and Idealism in Integral Theory
Ken Wilber

List of Contributors
Index