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" Observing complexity : "
William Rasch and Cary Wolfe, editors
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BL
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586634
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GBA0-43834b415853
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Observing complexity : : systems theory and postmodernity /\ William Rasch and Cary Wolfe, editors
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Minneapolis :: University of Minnesota Press,, c2000
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vii, 308 p. ;; 24 cm
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0816632979 (alk. paper)
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: 0816632987 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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1. Systems theory and/or postmodernism? : historical, political, and ethical frames. Why does society describe itself as postmodern? / Niklas Luhmann -- No exit? (Response to Luhmann) / Peter Uwe Hohendahl -- Pre- and post-dialectical materialisms : modeling praxis without subjects and objects / Marjorie Levinson -- Immanent systems, transcendental temptations, and the limits of ethics / William Rasch -- Rethinking the beyond within the real (response to Rasch) / Drucilla Cornell. 2. Of realism and recursivity : systems theory and the postmodern episteme. Theory of a different order : a conversation with Katherine Hayles and Niklas Luhmann / Niklas Luhmann ... [et al.] -- Making the cut : the interplay of narrative and system, or what systems theory can't see / N. Katherine Hayles -- In search of posthumanist theory : the second-order cybernetics of Maturana and Varela / Cary Wolfe. 3. Systems theory in resonance with major postmodernists. The limit of modernity : Luhmann and Lyotard on exclusion / William Rasch -- Blinded me with science : motifs of observation and temporality in Lacan and Luhmann / Jonathan Elmer -- Making contingency safe for liberalism : the pragmatics of epistemology in Rorty and Luhmann / Cary Wolfe -- The autonomy of affect / Brian Massumi
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Postmodernism
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System theory
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003
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B831.2.O27 2000
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Rasch, William,1949-
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Wolfe, Cary
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