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Papers Related to the Ideas of John G. Bennett Martin Zwick
Below are links to my papers that relate directly or indirectly to the spiritual, philosophical, and scientific ideas in John G. Bennett’s magnum opus, The Dramatic Universe, or his other writings or to other ideas in the literature of the Gurdjieff Work that Bennett taught. Scientific and philosophical discussion partially influenced by Bennett and/or Work ideas is also included in my book, Elements and Relations: Aspects of a Scientific Metaphysics (2023). See, for example, Chapter 6: Science, Religion, Politics, and browse the Index. More on Elements and Relations is here. Extensive information on JGB Systematics is available at the Systematics website. See also the Academia page of Anthony Blake, associate of JGB. ---------- Mussar and
Esotericism in Revolutionary Russia (2024) Western Jewish Studies Association meeting, Arizona State
University, Tempe Arizona, May 6, 2024 Similarities/differences of spiritual exercises in the
early Work and Novarodok Mussar. Other papers on the Jewish Mussar tradition
of inner work are here. Consider this paper in conjunction with “Personal
Knowledge and the Inner Sciences” below. Polymorphism and Polysemy in Images of the Sefirot (2021) Western Judaic Studies Association 25th Annual Conference,
online. On representations of the Kabbalistic Tree, focusing on the
dyad, triad, heptad, and other structures, which Bennett called “systems.” Rosenstock-Huessy’s “Cross of Reality” and Systems Theory (2021) Northwest Philosophy Conference, Portland State University,
Nov 12-13. On Rosenstock-Huessy’s tetrad, not clearly related to
Bennett’s tetrad but whose generality illustrates Bennett’s aim in his
Systematics. Words and Diagrams about Rosenzweig's Star (2020) Naharaim (2020) 14(1): 5-33. On Rosenzweig’s hexad (the Star of David) which is
different from Bennett’s hexad. Ideas and Graphs: the Tetrad of Activity (2018) International Journal of General Systems (2018) 47(7):
731-750. The ubiquity of the tetrad as interpreted by Bennett; the
possibility of enhancing Systematics by more extensive use of graph theory. Proceedings of the 23rd All and Everything 2018
International Conference, 163-176. An allegory based on Gobi expedition story in Meetings
with Remarkable Men. Mind and Life: Is the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature False? (2016) Biological Theory (2016) 11:25–38, DOI 10.1007/s13752-015-0231-1 Discussion of “mind” using Bennett’s scheme of automatic,
sensitive, and conscious energies. Freedom as a Natural Phenomenon (2015) Foundations of Science (2015) 20(3), DOI 10.1007/s10699-015-9433-z. Characterization of “freedom” using Bennett’s 3-2-1 triad
and his scheme of automatic, sensitive, and conscious energies. Biological Theory (2014) 9(1): 100-107: DOI 10.1007/s13752-013-0145-8. On a hierarchy of types of altruism, structured via the
octave. Complexity
Theory and Political Change: Talcott Parsons Occupies Wall Street (2012) In Complexity and the Human Experience, Modeling Complexity
in the Human and Social Sciences, Paul A. Youngman & Mirsad Hadzikadic,
editors, CRC Press, 2014, 141-160. Similarity of Parsons’ tetrad of “action” to Bennett’s
tetrad of “activity”; some political implications. Personal
Knowledge and the Inner Sciences (2010) In Markus Locker, ed., Systems Theory and Theology: The
Living Interplay between Science and Religion, 49-61. Eugene: Pickwick
Publications. Conceptualizing inner work as science. Holism
and Human History (slides, audio) (2010) Holism
and Human History (2009) Metanexus,
July 19, 2009 (Cosmos, Nature and Culture: A Transdisciplinary Conference,
Phoenix, Arizona). Modeling human history using the structure of the
enneagram. Symbolic
Structures as Systems: On the Near Isomorphism of Two Symbolic Structures
(2010) In Markus Locker, ed., Systems Theory and Theology: The
Living Interplay between Science and Religion (2010), 62-96, Eugene: Pickwick
Publications. On the similarity of a Jewish and a Neo-Confucian religious
symbol. A Conversation on Theodicy (2008) https://metanexus.net/conversation-theodicy/ A dialog about imperfection as a consequence of hazard (a theme explored by Bennett) and perfecting (tikkun) as a human responsibility. Systems Metaphysics: A Bridge from Science to Religion (2007) Metanexus conference: Transdisciplinarity and the Unity of
Knowledge: Beyond the Science and Religion Dialogue. June 2-6, 2007;
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Reprinted in Metanexus, June 24, 2007. Conceptions of “sacred isomorphisms” and inner science. A
Review of Systems: New Paradigms for the Human Sciences (2002) International
Journal of General Systems (2002) 31 (1): 101-109. Discussion of a chapter in this book about dyadic and triadic tensions or incompatibilities. Thoughts
on Some Shabbat Prayers (2002) Unpublished
paper. An interpretation, influenced by Work ideas, of some Jewish prayers. Understanding
Imperfection (2000) World Congress of the Systems Sciences & 44th Annual
Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences, Toronto, July
16-22, 2000. Further thoughts about Bennett’s ideas on hazard. Towards
an Ontology of Problems (1995) Advances in Systems Science and Applications Inauguration
Issue I, pp. 37-42. The ontological lawfulness of imperfection. Incompleteness, Negation, Hazard: On the Precariousness of
Systems (1984) Nature and System (1984) 6: 33-42. A systems-theoretic exploration, inspired by Bennett’s
ideas on hazard, of the ubiquity of flawedness or imperfection. Updated in
Chapter 1 (Essay) of Elements and Relations. Some
Analogies of Hierarchical Order in Biology and Linguistics (1978) Applied General Systems Research: Recent Developments &
Trends (1978), edited by George J. Klir, New York: Plenum Press,
521-529. Structural parallels between biology and
linguistics that illustrate aspects of the octave. Dialectics and Catastrophe (1978) Sociocybernetics (1978) 1: 129-154. Relevance of Hegelian and Marxian dialectics, interpreted
via catastrophe theory, to the dyad and the triad of Bennett’s
Systematics. --------------- These papers, temporarily available at the “Selected Works of Martin Zwick” site provided to Portland State University by bepress.com and scheduled to disappear in early 2025, are available at https://web.pdx.edu/~zwick/ . |
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