Observing complexity : systems theory and postmodernity

✍ Scribed by William Rasch & Editors,cary Wolfe & Cary Wolfe

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Year: 2000
Tongue: English
Leaves: 317
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Brings the major concepts and foremost thinkers of systems theory into interaction with the major figures of postmodern theory. The format is multiplex and opena rich montage, including interviews, exemplary essays, and staged dialogues.

Abstract: Brings the major concepts and foremost thinkers of systems theory into interaction with the major figures of postmodern theory. The format is multiplex and opena rich montage, including interviews, exemplary essays, and staged dialogues

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Acknowledgments
Introduction: Systems Theory and the Politics of Postmodernity
I . SYSTEMS THEORY AND/OR POSTMODERNISM? HISTORICAL, POLITICAL, AND ETHICAL FRAMES
I I . OF REALISM AND RECURSIVITY: SYSTEMS THEORY AND THE POSTMODERN EPISTEME
III. SYSTEMS THEORY IN RESONANCE WITH MAJOR POSTMODERNISTS
Contributors
Permissions
Index

✦ Subjects

Postmodernism. System theory. SCIENCE -- System Theory.

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