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Cilliers Paul <1956-2011, > |
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Critical complexity : collected essays / / Paul Cilliers ; edited by Rika Preiser |
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Berlin, Germany ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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ISBN |
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1-5015-0259-X |
1-5015-0261-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (302 p.) |
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Collana |
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Categories, , 2198-1868 ; ; Volume 6 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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. |
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