Critical Complexity : Collected Essays /
Critical Complexity : Collected Essays /
ed. by Rika Preiser.
- 1 online resource (XVI, 286 p.)
- Categories , 6 2198-1868 ; .
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part 1: Single-authored Papers. Theme 1: Characterising Complexity -- 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 -- Part 1: Single-authored Papers. Theme 2: Complexity and Philosophy -- 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 -- Part 1: Single-authored Papers. Theme 3: Implications of Complexity Thinking -- Difference, identity and complexity -- Complexity and philosophy -- Part 2: Posthumous after 2011. Theme 1: Critical Complexity -- Deconstruction and complexity -- Towards an economy of complexity -- The ethics of complexity and the complexity of ethics -- Author Index
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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 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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781501510793 9781501502613 9781501502590
10.1515/9781501502590 doi
Complexity (Philosophy).
Derrida, Jacques.
Ethik.
Grenzen des Wissens.
Komplexität.
PHILOSOPHY / Essays.
Jacques Derrida. complexity. ethics. limits of knowledge.
B105.C473 / C555 2016
003/.7
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part 1: Single-authored Papers. Theme 1: Characterising Complexity -- 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 -- Part 1: Single-authored Papers. Theme 2: Complexity and Philosophy -- 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 -- Part 1: Single-authored Papers. Theme 3: Implications of Complexity Thinking -- Difference, identity and complexity -- Complexity and philosophy -- Part 2: Posthumous after 2011. Theme 1: Critical Complexity -- Deconstruction and complexity -- Towards an economy of complexity -- The ethics of complexity and the complexity of ethics -- Author Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781501510793 9781501502613 9781501502590
10.1515/9781501502590 doi
Complexity (Philosophy).
Derrida, Jacques.
Ethik.
Grenzen des Wissens.
Komplexität.
PHILOSOPHY / Essays.
Jacques Derrida. complexity. ethics. limits of knowledge.
B105.C473 / C555 2016
003/.7