Traditions of systems theory : major figures and contemporary developments /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Arnold, Darrell (Darrell P.) (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.
Series:Routledge studies in library and information science ; 11.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Systems theory : a secret history of the 20th century / Darrell P. Arnold
  • The persistence of information theory / Philipp Schweighauser
  • Cybernetics : thinking through the technology / Ranulph Glanville
  • Expanding the self-referential paradox : the Macy conferences and the second wave of cybernetic thinking / John Bruni
  • The hermeneutical system of general systemology : Bertalanffian and other early contributions to its foundations and development / David Pouvreau
  • The ethics of epistemology : the work of the constructivist and cybernetician Heinz Von Foerster, from the Vienna Circle to the Cybernetic Circle / Bernhard Pörksen
  • Maturana and Varela : from autopoiesis to systems applications? / Bob Mugerauer
  • Eugene Odum and the homeostatic ecosystem : the resilience of an idea / Joel Hagen
  • Talcott Parsons : a sociological theory of action systems / Bettina Mahlert
  • Luhmann : three key concepts, system, meaning, autopoiesis / Walter Reese-Schäfer
  • Systems historicized : Wallerstein's World-systems analysis / W.L. Goldfrank
  • Systems theories and literary studies / Andrew McMurry
  • Systems heuristics and digital culture / Raphael Sassower and Nimrod Bar-Am
  • A brief outline of evolutionary cultural ecology / Peter Finke
  • Prigogine : the interplay of cosmos, complexity, and culture / Dorothea Olkowski
  • Systems theory and practice in organizational change and development / Debora Hammond
  • Systems, tools, and Bateson's cybernetics : a joint metalogue / Nora Bateson and Phillip Guddemi.