UID:
almafu_9960947531902883
Umfang:
1 online resource (302 p.)
ISBN:
1-5015-0259-X
,
1-5015-0261-1
Serie:
Categories, Volume 6
Inhalt:
This book is a collection of all the single authored essays by Paul Cilliers, published between 1990-2011. Being one of few authors who approached the study of complexity from a philosophical perspective, the main themes in these papers explore:- Qualitative characterization of complexity and the normative implications of studying complex adaptive systems,- the philosophical and conceptual similarity to post-structural approaches- how any engagement with complexity leads to a critical engagement with how we do science and design interventions- critical and normative implications for how to engage with complex socio-political concerns in the world. What makes this book unique is that it consolidates a body of work that is distributed over a wide range of academic journals. Although his book "Complexity and Postmodernism" (Routledge, 1998) remains a cornerstone in the field of complexity studies, Cilliers’ journal essays really explore the application of the theoretical concepts in more depth. His ground-breaking ideas conceptualized in these essays have served as a continual source of novelty and inspiration in the process of applying complexity thinking to other fields of study.
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
,
Frontmatter --
,
Table of Contents --
,
Acknowledgements --
,
Foreword --
,
Introduction --
,
The brain, the mental apparatus and the text --
,
Rules and relations --
,
Rules and complex systems --
,
What can we learn from a theory of complexity? --
,
Knowledge, complexity and understanding --
,
Boundaries, hierarchies and networks in complex systems --
,
Why we cannot know complex things completely --
,
Knowledge, limits and boundaries --
,
Postmodern knowledge and complexity (or why anything does not go) --
,
Complexity, deconstruction and relativism --
,
On Derrida and apartheid --
,
Justice, law and philosophy --
,
Complexity, ethics and justice --
,
Difference, identity and complexity --
,
Complexity and philosophy --
,
Deconstruction and complexity --
,
Towards an economy of complexity --
,
The ethics of complexity and the complexity of ethics --
,
Author Index
,
Issued also in print.
,
English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-5015-1079-7
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.1515/9781501502590
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501502590
