John Smith, Chris Jenks

Qualitative Complexity

Ecology, Cognitive Processes and the Re-Emergence of Structures in Post-Humanist Social Theory

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Produktbeschreibung

Offering a critique of the humanist paradigm in contemporary social theory, Qualitative Complexity is the first comprehensive sociological analysis of complexity theory. Drawing from sources in sociology, philosophy, complexity theory, 'fuzzy logic', systems theory, cognitive science and evolutionary biology, John Smith and Chris Jenks present a new series of interdisciplinary perspectives on the sociology of complex, self-organizing structures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 477g
• ISBN-13: 9780415439671
• ISBN-10: 0415439671
• Artikelnr.: 26682220

Autorenporträt

John Smith, Chris Jenks

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: The Interdisciplinary Field 1. Complexity Theory: A Positioning
Paper 2. From Descartes' Conjecture to Kant's Subject and the Computo 3.
Autopoiesis in Cognitive Biology 4. Emergentism, Evolutionary Psychology
and Culture 5. Prigogine's Thermodynamics, Ontology and Sociology Part 2:
Critical Developments 6. Modernism and Determinism: Linear Expectations and
Qualitative Complexity Analyses 7. Complexity Theory as a Critique of
Postmodernism 8. Cognition and the Renewal of Systems Theory: Redundant
Idioms and Disputed Positions 9. The Evolution of Intelligence,
Consciousness and Language: Implications for Social Theory 10. Complexity,
Language and Culture: Social Systems in Qualitative, i.e. not Formal Terms
Part 3: The Fields of Complex Analysis: Contemporary Complexity Theory 11.
The Ethics of Pragmatism: Politics and Post-Structuralism in Transition
after the Complexity Turn 12. The Topology of Complexity 13.
Re-Interpreting Global Complexity as an Ontology: Human Ecology