Critical Complexity : : Collected Essays / / ed. by Rika Preiser.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Cilliers, Paul,; Degenaar, Johan,; Hofmeyr, Jan-Hendrik,; Human, Oliver,; Merwe, Willie van der,; Preiser, Rika,; Woermann, Minka,
• HerausgeberIn: Preiser, Rika,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Categories , 6
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XVI, 286 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501502590; 9783110762501; 9783110701005; 9783110485103; 9783110485301
• ISSN: 2198-1868
• DOI: 10.1515/9781501502590
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Rika Preiser.

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.