F.S.C. Northrop's major work arguing that the cultural and political conflicts of the modern world stem from unrecognized differences between Eastern and Western epistemological approaches, and that their synthesis is essential for civilization.
Systematic comparison of Eastern and Western cultures through their contrasting epistemological foundations — the aesthetic (undifferentiated) vs. the theoretically postulated (differentiated) continuum; directly influenced Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality.
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