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This work addresses the topic of philosophical complexity, which shares certain assumptions with scientific complexity, cybernetics, and General Systems Theory, but which is also developing as a subject field in its own right. Specifically, the post-structural reading of philosophical complexity that was pioneered by the late Professor Paul Cilliers is further developed in this study. To this end, the ideas of a number of contemporary French post-structural theorists and their predecessors - including Derrida, Nancy, Bataille, Levinas, Foucault, Nietzsche, and Heidegger - are introduced. The implications that their various insights hold for our understanding of complex human systems are teased out at the hand of the themes of economy, (social) ontology, epistemology, and ethics. The analyses are also illuminated at the hand of the problematic of the foreigner and the related challenges of showing hospitality to foreigners. The study presents a sophisticated introduction to both philosophical complexity and to philosophies of difference. By relating these two subject fields, the study also expands on our understanding of philosophical complexity, and offers an original characterisation of the aforementioned philosophers as complex thinkers.

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Book category Books in English Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects Research & information: general Information theory

• Full title: Bridging Complexity and Post-Structuralism
• Subtitle: Insights and Implications
• Author: Minka Woermann
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 205
• EAN: 9783319390451
• ISBN: 3319390457
• ID: 02986417
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
• Weight: 4557 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 155 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. September 2016

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