Critical complexity : collected essays / / Paul Cilliers ; edited by Rika Preiser

• Autore: Cilliers Paul <1956-2011, >
• Pubblicazione: Berlin, Germany ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Disciplina: 003/.7
• Soggetto topico: Complexity (Philosophy)
• Soggetto non controllato: Jacques Derrida; complexity; ethics; limits of knowledge
• Persona (resp. second.): PreiserRika
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Critical complexity
• ISBN: 1-5015-0259-X; 1-5015-0261-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910798024803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Categories (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; ; Volume 6.