Ancestors of the Second Renaissance: key influences and ideas
Summary
Who are our ancestors? What are the main intellectual (or spiritual or other) traditions that are relevant to the Second Renaissance?
Some questions:
- Who are the key leading figures and their most important contributions?
- What ideas / thinkers / traditions have they been in turn influenced by? (history / genealogy of ideas)
- Who are their allies?
- What’s their “tone”? (e.g. mythical, storytelling vs. rational/analytical thinking…?)
Leading Figures
(When we have a page on any of these, please remove the "Wikipedia:" from the link below.)
- Wikipedia: Alfred Korzybski
- Wikipedia: Buckminster Fuller
- Wikipedia: Gregory Bateson
- Wikipedia: Joseph Campbell
- Wikipedia: Marshall McLuhan
- Wikipedia: Jean Gebser
- Wikipedia: Ken Wilber
- Wikipedia: Joanna Macy
- Wikipedia: Ursula K. Le Guin
- Wikipedia: E. F. Schumacher
- Wikipedia: James Baldwin
- Wikipedia: Donella Meadows
- Wikipedia: Carl Jung
- Wikipedia: Alan Watts
- Wikipedia: Sri Aurobindo
- Robert Kegan
- Wikipedia: Jürgen Habermas
- François Laruelle