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Observing Complexity: Systems Theory and Postmodernity
William Rasch
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Paperback. Num Pages: 316 pages. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 147 x 13. Weight in Grams: 420.
Shakes up postmodern criticism with paradigms from the social and techno-sciences.
Shakes up postmodern criticism with paradigms from the social and techno-sciences.
The rubric of systems theory brings together conceptual models and approaches in the sciences and social sciences that study complexity. It attempts to provide a coherent means of describing all systems, whether organic or inorganic, and offers a theory of knowledge that can account for the integration of humans in the social, informational, and ecological systems in which we are enmeshed. Observing Complexity brings the major concepts and foremost thinkers of systems theory into interaction with the major figures of ... Read moreContributors: Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers U; Jonathan Elmer, Indiana U; N. Katherine Hayles, UCLA; Peter Uwe Hohendahl, Cornell U; Eva Knodt; Marjorie Levinson, U of Michigan; Niklas Luhmann; Brian Massumi, SUNY, Albany. Show LessProduct Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Number of pages
316
Condition
New
Number of Pages
316
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816632985
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V9780816632985
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About William Rasch
William Rasch is professor of Germanic studies at Indiana University. Cary Wolfe is professor and associate dean of English at SUNY, Albany.
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