Synopsis of the Contents:

Part One, Polarity contains chapters covering Polarity: A Descriptive Hypothesis and Theories of Polarity.

Part Two, Dialectic is divided into two sections which cover, I. Structural Aspects; and, II. Dynamic Aspects.

Part Three, Organicity contains two chapters, Negation, and Organicity.

The book also includes a detailed Index.

In the fall of 1925 Archie Bahm went off to Taylor University, an institution of higher education established by a conservative evangelical Protestant denomination, intending to prepare himself for the Christian ministry. However, during the first semester he...abandoned his pre-ministerial plans, "to pursue my quest as a truth seeker."

That quest for truth absorbed him for the rest of his long life, and resulted in a rich and distinguished career as a university professor and philosopher. Extensive travels, publications which were translated into several Asian and European languages, and voluminous correspondence with fellow-philosophers on five continents served to put him in touch with philosophic thinking representing the major traditions globally.

The beginning of this book traces the stages involved in working out the system which was to be known as "Organicism," and the various influences which were incorporated into its formulation. This is intended to be an intellectual autobiography covering Archie Bahm's life and writings, at the same time dealing with the concept of "Organicism," focussing on each dimension of this world view in turn, first as his own thinking about how a given area originated, and then how that area was developed. The reader is immediately impressed by two things. First, the breadth of Archie's interest and knowledge, and the depth of that knowledge in each of the dimensions examined.

excerpts from the Preface by
Fred Gillette Sturm, Professor of Philosophy, University of New Mexico