The other CoSMoS

Essays
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-8192-2443-0
Verlag: BoD - Books on Demand

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, HC runder Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 486 g

"The other CoSMoS" presents a comprehensive alternative to the dominant mechanistic-materialistic world-picture of modernity.
Drawing on Goethe, Nietzsche, Giordano Bruno, and his own "radial field theory", Kirchhoff argues that the universe is not an empty, dead space but a living, soul-imbued and spiritual organism in which humanity, as the "cosmic anthropos", remains essentially embedded. Key concepts include the "radial field" (in place of linear causality), the "light of nature" as the primordial source of consciousness, and the overcoming of the Copernican trauma that banished Earth and human beings from the centre of being.
The book sharply critiques the reductionism of the natural sciences, the theory of relativity, the Big Bang hypothesis, and, above all, nuclear power as expressions of a Promethean, life-denying attitude. At the same time, it offers positive impulses for an expanded consciousness that regards art, music, and mystical experience as pathways to reclaiming the "other cosmos".
The reader finds a passionate plea for a return to a holistic, meaning-giving understanding of the world that once again thinks nature, spirit, and cosmos together as a living whole.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kirchhoff, Jochen

Über Autor(innen)

Kirchhoff, Jochen
Jochen Kirchhoff, born in 1944, lives and works in Berlin. From the 1990s to the early 2000s he delivered around 150 lectures on natural-philosophical themes, a number of which appear in this volume in revised form. Many of these talks are now available as podcasts and transcripts. Since 1980 he has given more than 400 public lectures on natural philosophy and topics of urgent social relevance. His teaching has been complemented by numerous seminars on geomantic subjects and on the holistic reception of classical music. His published work comprises a tetralogy of natural philosophy, books on the philosophy of music, monographs, essays in journals, and writings dedicated to the preservation, reappraisal, and creative continuation of the philosophical legacy of Helmut Friedrich Krause. Jochen Kirchhoff is recognised as one of the foremost authorities on the thought of Giordano Bruno, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Novalis, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Helmut Friedrich Krause, among many others. Through essays, interviews, and his YouTube channel he regularly contributes to contemporary discourse, offering philosophical perspectives on current phenomena and on the fundamental questions involved in overcoming the crisis of human consciousness.

Jochen Kirchhoff:
Jochen Kirchhoff, born in 1944, lives and works in Berlin. From the 1990s to the early 2000s he delivered around 150 lectures on natural-philosophical themes, a number of which appear in this volume in revised form. Many of these talks are now available as podcasts and transcripts. Since 1980 he has given more than 400 public lectures on natural philosophy and topics of urgent social relevance. His teaching has been complemented by numerous seminars on geomantic subjects and on the holistic reception of classical music. His published work comprises a tetralogy of natural philosophy, books on the philosophy of music, monographs, essays in journals, and writings dedicated to the preservation, reappraisal, and creative continuation of the philosophical legacy of Helmut Friedrich Krause. Jochen Kirchhoff is recognised as one of the foremost authorities on the thought of Giordano Bruno, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Novalis, Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Helmut Friedrich Krause, among many others. Through essays, interviews, and his YouTube channel he regularly contributes to contemporary discourse, offering philosophical perspectives on current phenomena and on the fundamental questions involved in overcoming the crisis of human consciousness.