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Qualitative complexity : ecology, cognitive processes and the re-emergence of structures in post-humanist social theory
- Title
- Qualitative complexity : ecology, cognitive processes and the re-emergence of structures in post-humanist social theory / John Smith and Chris Jenks.
- Author
- Smith, John A., 1947 April 16-
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Jenks, Chris.
- Description
- vi, 302 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- International library of sociology
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 286-290) and index.
- Contents
- The interdisciplinary field -- Complexity theory : a positioning paper -- From Descartes' conjecture to Kant's subject and the computo -- Autopoiesis in cognitive biology -- Emergentism, evolutionary psychology and culture -- Prigogine's thermodynamics, ontology and sociology -- Critical developments -- Modernism and determinism : linear expectations and qualitative complexity analyses -- Complexity theory as a critique of postmodernism -- Cognition and the renewal of systems theory : redundant idioms and disputed positions -- The evolution of intelligence, consciousness and language : implications for social theory -- Complexity, language and culture : social systems in qualitative, i.e. not formal, terms -- The fields of complex analysis : contemporary complexity theory -- The ethics of pragmatism : politics and post-structuralism in transition after the complexity turn -- The topology of complexity -- Re-interpreting global complexity as an ontology : human ecology.
- Call Number
- JFE 06-10126
- ISBN
- 0415336503 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2006003145
- 9780415336505
- OCLC
- 63297727
- vendorOCM63297727
- Author
- Smith, John A., 1947 April 16-
- Title
- Qualitative complexity : ecology, cognitive processes and the re-emergence of structures in post-humanist social theory / John Smith and Chris Jenks.
- Imprint
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
- Series
- International library of sociology
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 286-290) and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Jenks, Chris.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780415336505
- Research Call Number
- JFE 06-10126