Systems
New Paradigms for the Human Sciences
1st Edition
Published on 11. July 2011
XIV, 781 pages
978-3-11-080119-4 (ISBN)
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Content
- Intro
- Preface
- I. General
- Evolving complexity in social science
- Evolutionary modelling
- Can we apply synergetics to the human sciences?
- From crisp systems to fuzzy systems
- Systems and societies: The logic of sociocultural evolution
- Systems-theoretical approach to the concept of organization
- No system can be improved in all respects
- The plurality of systems, and the unity of the world
- Systems ideology in human and social sciences
- Systems theory and the evolution of science
- Emerging systems
- II. Semiotics
- Semiotic systems
- Inquiries into semiotic principles and systems
- Constructive contradictions
- III. Knowledge and cognition
- Gödelian aspects of nature and knowledge
- Cognitive systems theory
- IV. Culture
- Concept of the 'Second Reality' from the perspective of an empirical systems theory on the basis of radical constructivism
- Self-organization of culture
- V. Music
- Systemic organization and the development of the European musical language
- A systems theoretical approach to language and music
- VI. Language
- On the nature of tension in dialectal networks
- Hurst's indicators and text
- A note on language competences as dynamic systems
- Chaos, fractals and dissipative structures in language
- VII. Literature
- Fractopoi, chaosmos, or merely simplexity-complicity?
- A systems-oriented approach to literary studies
- VIII. In lieu of an EPILOGUE
- Systems and the human sciences
- Index of names
- Index of subjects
