TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cilliers,Paul
AU  - Degenaar,Johan
AU  - Hofmeyr,Jan-Hendrik
AU  - Human,Oliver
AU  - Merwe,Willie van der
AU  - Preiser,Rika
AU  - Woermann,Minka
TI  - Critical Complexity: Collected Essays 
T2  - Categories ,
SN  - 9781501510793
AV  - B105.C473 C555 2016
U1  - 003/.7 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - Complexity (Philosophy)
KW  - Derrida, Jacques
KW  - Ethik
KW  - Grenzen des Wissens
KW  - Komplexität
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Essays
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Jacques Derrida
KW  - complexity
KW  - ethics
KW  - limits of knowledge
N1  - 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; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501502590
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