The Meaning of Holism LO1739

Bernard Girard (bgirard@Dialup.FranceNet.fr)
Tue, 20 Jun 1995 07:59:59 +0000

Replying to LO1643 --

Dear Roderic,

You have a lot of questions, I have one : what is this "holistic
management" you're talking about. What do these farmers do that
makes them in any sense of the word "holistics"?

For the word, you could look in two directions :

- the books of Louis Dumont, who opposes the holistic tradition
of India to the individualist tradition of Europe (Mandeville,
Smith)

- the sociologists of the beginning of the century (especially
Durkheim) who consided society as a whole.

--
Bernard Girard
<bgirard@Dialup.FranceNet.fr>