Integral Theory in Action: Applied, Theoretical, and Constructive Perspectives on the AQAL Model

by Sean Esbjörn-Hargens (Editor), Roger Walsh (Foreword by), Ken Wilber (Afterword)

Overview

In a world as complex as ours, an integral approach is needed to help sort through a dynamic landscape and respond effectively to individual and collective challenges. Integral Theory in Action provides the first multi-authored overview of such an approach. Integral Theory is the result of 30 years of research and is being applied in over 35 distinct disciplines. This volume brings together two dozen leading scholar-practitioners who are actively applying integral principles and who address a range of issues from an integral perspective including: climate change, embodiment, feminist aesthetics, community discourse, treatment of depression, developmental theory, and global ethics. The strengths, limitations, and potential of Integral Theory and Ken Wilber's AQAL model are weighed by each contributor. This collection pushes the field of Integral Theory in new ways and new directions, and provides a comprehensive overview that makes it an invaluable resource for any integral effort.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781438433868
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	08/01/2010
Series:	SUNY series in Integral Theory
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	475
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Matthew Solomon is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. He is the author of Disappearing Tricks: Silent Films, Houdini, and the New Magic of the Twentieth Century.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Foreword: The Integral Enterprise: Current Frontiers and Possible Futures
Roger N. Walsh

Introduction
Sean Esbjörn-Hargens

Prologue: The Academic Emergence of Integral Theory: Reflections on and Clarifications of the 1st Biennial Integral Theory Conference
Mark D. Forman and Sean Esbjörn-Hargens

1. An Overview of Integral Theory: An All-Inclusive Framework for the Twenty-First Century
Sean Esbjörn-Hargens

I. Applied Perspectives

2.Responding to Climate Change: The Need for an Integral Approach
Karen O’Brien

3.Embodiment, an Ascending and Descending Development
Theresa Silow

4. Beauty and the Expansion of Women’s Identity
Vanessa D. Fisher

5. Writing to Effect: Textual Form as Realization in an Integral Community
Michele Chase

6. An Integral Understanding of the Etiology of Depression
Elliott Ingersoll

II. Theoretical Perspectives

7. Now You Get It, Now You Don’t: Developmental Differences in the Understanding of Integral Theory and Practice
Zachary Stein

8. The Final Cause of Cosmic Development: Nondual Spirit or the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
Michael E. Zimmerman

9. Frames of AQAL, Integral Critical Theory, and the Emerging Integral Arts
Michael Schwartz

10. Integral Situational Ethical Pluralism: An Overview of a Second-Tier Ethic for the Twenty-First Century
Randy Martin

11. An Integral Map of Perspective-Taking
Clint Fuhs

12. Second-Tier Gains and Challenges in Ego Development
Susanne Cook-Greuter

III. Constructive Perspectives

13. Rhizomatic Contributions to Integral Ecology in Deleuze and Guattari
Sam Mickey

14. Exploring Epistemic Wisdom: Ethical and Practical Implications of Integral Studies and Methodological Pluralism for Collaboration and Knowledge-Building
Tom Murray

15. Appropriation in Integral Theory: The Case of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s “Untold” Integral View
Charles I. Flores

16. Of Elephants and Butterflies: An Integral Metatheory for Organizational Transformation
Mark Edwards

17. Developmental Action Inquiry: A Distinct Integral Theory That Actually Integrates Developmental Theory, Practice, and Research
William R. Torbert, Reut Livne-Tarandach, David McCallum, Aliki Nicolaides, and Elaine Herdman-Barker

Afterword: The Dawn of an Integral Age
Ken Wilber

Contributors
Index
Contents

What People are Saying About This

Sean M. Kelly

This represents the first flowering of a new theoretical movement that has potential implications for the full spectrum of disciplinary inquiry as well as for significant areas of practical application, from ethics and development assessment to climate change. (Sean M. Kelly, author of Coming Home: The Birth and Transformation of the Planetary Era)