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Includes an excellent introduction to philosophical complexity
Introduces the reader to poignant post-structural philosophical insights
Develops the field of philosophical complexity
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Specifically, the post-structural reading of philosophical complexity that was pioneered by Paul Cilliers is further developed in this study. To this end, the ideas of a number of contemporary French post-structural theorists and their predecessors - including Derrida, Nancy, Bataille, Levinas, Foucault, Saussure, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Hegel - are introduced. The implications that their various insights hold for our understanding of complex human systems are teased out at the hand of the themes of economy, (social) ontology, subjectivity, epistemology, and ethics. The analyses are also illuminated at the hand of the problematic of the foreigner and the related challenges of showing hospitality to foreigners.
The study presents a sophisticated account of both philosophical complexity and philosophies of difference. By relating these subject fields, the study also extends our understanding of philosophical complexity, and offers an original characterisation of the aforementioned philosophers as complex thinkers.
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Book Title: Bridging Complexity and Post-Structuralism
Book Subtitle: Insights and Implications
Authors: Minka Woermann
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39047-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-39045-1Published: 07 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81803-0Published: 27 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-39047-5Published: 27 September 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 205
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ethics, Applications of Graph Theory and Complex Networks, Philosophy of the Social Sciences