
Critical Complexity
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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.
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- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part 1: Single-authored Papers. Theme 1: Characterising Complexity
- The brain, the mental apparatus and the text. A post-structural neuropsychology
- Rules and relations. Some connectionist implications for cognitive science and language
- 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. An interview with Jacques Derrida
- Complexity, ethics and justice
- Part 1: Single-authored Papers. Theme 3: Implications of Complexity Thinking
- Difference, identity and complexity
- Complexity and philosophy. On the importance of a certain slowness
- Part 2: Posthumous after 2011. Theme 1: Critical Complexity
- Deconstruction and complexity. A critical economy
- Towards an economy of complexity. Derrida, Morin and Bataille
- The ethics of complexity and the complexity of ethics
- Author Index
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