Secondary sources

Bateson, Gregory: Mind and nature. A necessary unity.
Translated from the American English by Hans Günter Holl. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1982. 317 pp. (Original title: Mind and Nature. A Necessary Unity. New York: EP Dutton, 1979.)

by Bertalanffy, Ludwig: General System Theory. Foundations, Development, Applications. New York: George Braziller, 1968. 289 pp. German edition: General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications. Bern/Stuttgart: Hans Huber Verlag, 1972. 320 pp.

Bertaux, Pierre: Mutation of humanity. An essay on the origin of the mind. Translated from the French by Fritz L. Lemp. Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag (dtv 1124), 1971. 237 pp. (Original title: La Mutation Humaine. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1963.)

Blöcker, Günter: The new realities. Lines and profiles of modern literature. Darmstadt: Moderner Buch-Club, 1959. 371 pp.

Chaitin, Gregory J.: Meta Math! The Quest for Omega. New York: Pantheon Books, 2005. 240 pp. ISBN 0-375-42230-5.

Dawkins, Richard: The God Delusion. London: Bantam Press, 2006. 406 pp.
German edition: The God delusion. Translated from the English by Ulrike Kleiner and Karin Schuler. Berlin: Ullstein Verlag, 2007. 575 pp.

Eddington, Arthur Stanley: The Nature of the Physical World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1928. 361 pp. (German edition: The nature of the physical world. Translated from the English by F.W. Schütz. Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, 1929.)

Faggin, Federico: Silicon. From the Invention of the Microprocessor to the New Science of Consciousness. Dallas: Waterside Productions, 2021. 400 pp. ISBN 978-1-946-40778-3.

Frankl, Viktor E.: …saying yes to life anyway. A psychologist experiences the concentration camp. First edition: Vienna: Franz Deuticke, 1946. Later, internationally renowned version: The will to meaning. Foundations and application of logotherapy. Munich: Piper Verlag, 1972. 285 pp.
(First publication of the English version: Man's Search for Meaning. Boston: Beacon Press, 1959.)

Gebser, Jean: Origin and present. A contribution to the history of consciousness. 2 volumes. Volume One: The foundations of the aperspectival world. Volume Two: Manifestations of the aperspectival world. Zurich: Verlag der Arche, 1949–1953. Later expanded complete edition: Stuttgart: Klett-Cotta, 1973. 1036 pp. (First published 1949, revised edition 1953.)

Gödel, Kurt: On formally undecidable propositions of the Principia Mathematica and related systems I. In: Monthly Journal of Mathematics and Physics 38 (1931), pp. 173–198. English translation in: Collected Works, Volume I: Publications 1929–1936. Edited by Solomon Feferman et al. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Helbig, Hermann: World riddles from the perspective of modern science. Emergence in nature, society, psychology, technology, and religion2nd, completely revised and improved edition. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2020. ISBN 978-3-662-60761-9.

Heisenberg, Werner: Steps Beyond Borders. Collected Speeches and Essays.
Munich: Piper Verlag, 1971. 303 pp. Expanded edition: Munich: Piper Verlag, 1976. 383 pp. (Some texts were first published in the 1950s and 60s.)

Jung, Carl Gustav; Pauli, Wolfgang: Explanation of nature and psyche. Zurich: Rascher, 1952.

Kaeser, Eduard: The mysteries of the world remain unsolved. Science, the unknown, and the mystery. Zug (Switzerland): Grey Edition, 2017. ISBN 978-3-906336-71-8.

Koestler, Arthur: The Nightwalkers. A story about a changing worldview. Translated from the English by Edith Jacobsohn. Munich/Zurich: Droemer Knaur, 1959. 672 pp. Original title: The Sleepwalkers. A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe. London: Hutchinson, 1959.

Koestler, Arthur: The divine spark. The creative act in art and science. Translated from the English by Edith Jacobsohn. Munich: Kindler Verlag, 1966. 478 pp. (Original title: The Act of Creation. London: Hutchinson, 1964.)

Kuhn, Thomas S.: The structure of scientific revolutions.
Translated from the American by Hermann Vetter. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1973. 304 pp. (Original title: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962.)

Lecomte du Noüy, Pierre: The Destiny of Man: An Essay on the Meaning of Life. Translated from the French by Heinrich Retter. Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder Verlag, 1949. 304 pp. (Original title: Human Destiny Paris: Éditions Albin Michel, 1947.)

Mitscherlich, Alexander / Mitscherlich, Margarete: The inability to grieve. Foundations of collective behavior. Munich: Piper Verlag, 1967. 276 pp.

Popper, Karl R.: The Open Society and Its Enemies. Volume 1: The Spell of Plato. Volume 2: False Prophets – Hegel, Marx and the Consequences. Translated from the English by Paul K. Feyerabend and others. Tübingen: JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1958. (Original title: The Open Society and Its Enemies. 2 volumes. London: Routledge, 1945.)

Precht, Richard David: Who am I – and if so, how many? A philosophical journey. Munich: Goldmann Verlag, 2007. 413 pp.
ISBN 978-3-442-15310-8. (First published in 2007 by Goldmann; numerous reprints, also as an audiobook: Random House Audio 2008.)

Satprem: Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness. Translated from the French by Heinz Kappes. Freiburg i. Br.: Aurum-Verlag, 1974. 347 pp.
(Original title: Sri Aurobindo and the Adventure of Conscience. Paris: Éditions Buchet/Chastel, 1964.)

Schrödinger, Erwin: The current situation in quantum mechanics.
In: Natural sciences, Vol. 23, Issue 48, 1935, pp. 807–812; Issue 49, pp. 823–828; Issue 50, pp. 844–849.

(English translation: The Present Situation in Quantum Mechanics. In: Quantum Theory and Measurement. Edited by John A. Wheeler & Wojciech H. Zurek. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983, pp. 152-167.)

Schrödinger, Erwin: What is life? The living cell viewed through the eyes of a physicist. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1944. (German Zurich: Europa Verlag, 1946.)

Schrödinger, Erwin: Mind and matter. Zurich: Diogenes Verlag, 1958

Sloterdijk, Peter: You need to change your life. About anthropotechnics. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2009. 703 pp. ISBN 978-3-518-42017-9.

Stein, Werner: The big cultural timetableThe most important dates in world history to date, presented in a thematic overview. Politics – Art – Religion – Economics. Munich: Herbig, c. 1987. ISBN 3-7766-1435-8

Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre: Man in the cosmos. The rise of humanity. Translated from the French by Heinrich Retter. Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder Verlag, 1959. 382 pp. (Original title: Le Phénomène humain. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1955.)

Watzlawick, Paul: How real is reality? Delusion, deception, understanding. Munich/Zurich: Piper Verlag, 1976. 190 pp. ISBN 3-492-02447-4.

Watzlawick, Paul: Instructions for being unhappy. Munich/Zurich: Piper Verlag, 1983. 128 pp. ISBN 3-492-02774-0.

Wheeler, John Archibald: Gravity. With Charles W. Misner and Kip S. Thorne. San Francisco: WH Freeman and Company, 1973. 1,278 pp.

Wheeler, John A.: “Information, Physics, Quantum: The Search for Links.” In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in the Light of New Technology. Tokyo: Physical Society of Japan, 1989, pp. 354–368.

Wiener, Norbert: Cybernetics, or control and communication in animals and machines. Translated from the American by Hans Buhl. Düsseldorf/Vienna: Econ Verlag, 1963. 226 pp. (Original title: Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1948.)

Zuse, Konrad: Calculating Space. Braunschweig: Vieweg, 1969. Online at: philpapers.org/archive/ZUSRR.pdf

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