TY - BOOK AU - Smith,John A. AU - Jenks,Chris TI - Qualitative complexity ecology, cognitive processes and the re-emergence of structures in post-humanist social theory T2 - International library of sociology SN - 0415336503 PY - 2006/// CY - Londres (Inglaterra) PB - Routledge KW - Ciencias sociales KW - Filosofía KW - Comportamiento caótico en sistemas KW - Sistemas sociales KW - Sociología N1 - Incluye referencias bbiliográficas e índice; The interdisciplinary field -- Complexity theory: a positioning paper -- From Descartes'conjecture to Kant's subject & the Computo -- Autopoiesis in cognitive biology -- Emergentism, evolutionary psychology and culture -- Prigogine's thermodynamics, ontology and sociology -- Critical developments -- Modernism and determinism: linear expectations and qualitative complexity analyses -- Complexity theory as a critique of postmodernism -- Cognition and the renewal of systems theory: redundant idioms and disputed positions -- The evolution of intelligence, consciousness and language: implications for social theory -- Complexity, language and culture: social systems in qualitative, i.e. not formal terms -- The fields of complex analysis: contemporary complexity theory -- The ethics of pragmatism: politics and post-structuralism in transition after the complexity turn -- The topology of complexity -- Re-interpreting global complexity as an ontology: human ecology UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip067/2006003145.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0654/2006003145-d.html ER -