Complexity, Multi-Disciplinarity, and Beyond

Michael Finkenthal

ISBN 10: 0820457353 / ISBN 13: 9780820457352

Verlag: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Mär 2008, 2008

Beschreibung

Neuware -Complexity, Multi-Disciplinarity, and Beyond addresses the issue of complexity mainly in the fields of humanities and social sciences. It is a continuation of Interdisciplinarity: Toward the Definition of a Metadiscipline (Lang, 2001) in which the main question is related to the role of interdisciplinarity and disciplinarian thinking in confronting complexity in general. The present book focuses on complexity in the humanities but also revisits some of the ideas brought forth in Interdisciplinarity, concerning the limitations of disciplinarian thinking and interdisciplinarity in their confrontations with complexity. The development of conceptual tools, as well as theories and models for complexity outside the realm of «hard» sciences, is still in its infancy. Nevertheless, it is essential to learn to cope with complexity, and every effort in this area must be encouraged. 148 pp. Englisch.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780820457352

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Complexity, Multi-Disciplinarity, and Beyond
• Verlag: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Mär 2008
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0820457353
• ISBN-13: 9780820457352
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 236B x 165 H x 13 T Millimeter Breite: 236 mm, Höhe: 165 mm, Tiefe: 13 mm
• Gewicht: 397 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

Complexity, Multi-Disciplinarity, and Beyond addresses the issue of complexity mainly in the fields of humanities and social sciences. It is a continuation of Interdisciplinarity: Toward the Definition of a Metadiscipline? (Lang, 2001) in which the main question is related to the role of interdisciplinarity and disciplinarian thinking in confronting complexity in general. The present book focuses on complexity in the humanities but also revisits some of the ideas brought forth in Interdisciplinarity, concerning the limitations of disciplinarian thinking and interdisciplinarity in their confrontations with complexity. The development of conceptual tools, as well as theories and models for complexity outside the realm of «hard» sciences, is still in its infancy. Nevertheless, it is essential to learn to cope with complexity, and every effort in this area must be encouraged.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

The Author: Michael Finkenthal is the author of several books and many articles on various subjects related to literary, philosophical, and scientific matters. His present work on complexity in humanities and social sciences was very much informed by his long-standing research of the exceedingly complex media of hot, laboratory, and astrophysical plasmas.