Whereas most readers are familiar with Goethe
as a poet and dramatist, few are familiar with his
scientific work. In this brilliant book, Henri Bortoft
(who began his studies of Goethean science with
J. G. Bennett and David Bohm) introduces the
fascinating scientific theories of Goethe. He succeeds
in showing that Goethe way of doing science was
not a poet folly but a genuine alternative to the
dominant scientific paradigm.

Bortoft shows that a different, "gentler" kind of
empiricism is possible than that demanded by the
dualizing mind of modern technological science
and demonstrates that Goethe participatory
phenomenology of a new way of seeinghile
far from being a historical curiosityn fact
proposes a practical solution to the dilemmas
of contemporary, postmodern science.

If you read only one book on Goethan science,
this should be the one!