Zellen, Wellen, Systeme : Eine Genealogie systemischen Denkens, 1880-1980.

The history of systems theory does not start with the rise of cybernetics in the post-war 20th century. It rather took off in the late 19th century's now largely forgotten organismic sociology. Authors like Talcott Parsons or Niklas Luhmann can't, however, be reduced solely to a single lin...

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