04088nam 2200673 450 991081248560332120230808212256.01-5015-0259-X1-5015-0261-110.1515/9781501502590(CKB)3710000000579634(EBL)4338417(SSID)ssj0001591280(PQKBManifestationID)16290343(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001591280(PQKBWorkID)14874658(PQKB)10934106(MiAaPQ)EBC4338417(DE-B1597)451507(OCoLC)941071037(DE-B1597)9781501502590(Au-PeEL)EBL4338417(CaPaEBR)ebr11146678(CaONFJC)MIL888796(OCoLC)935921565(EXLCZ)99371000000057963420160209h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrCritical complexity collected essays /Paul Cilliers ; edited by Rika PreiserBerlin, Germany ;Boston, [Massachusetts] :De Gruyter,2016.©20161 online resource (302 p.)Categories,2198-1868 ;Volume 6Description based upon print version of record.1-5015-1079-7 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.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 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.Categories (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ;Volume 6.Complexity (Philosophy)Jacques Derrida.complexity.ethics.limits of knowledge.Complexity (Philosophy)003/.7Cilliers Paul1956-2011,1663950Preiser RikaMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812485603321Critical complexity4021652UNINA