Volume 1: Rescuing the Enlightenment from Itself :
Gigch, John P.
Volume 1: Rescuing the Enlightenment from Itself : Critical and Systemic Implications for Democracy / edited by John P. Gigch, Janet McIntyre-Mills. - XVII, 370 páginas, recurso en línea.
Springer eBooks
to Volume 1: The Contribution of West Churchman to Sustainable Governance and International Relations -- C. West Churchman and the New World of Co-Design -- Some Notes with Regard to “Thought and Wisdom” -- The Sytems Approach and Its Enemies Helps Us Find the Morality of a Revised Democracy -- Be Your Enemy -- The Social Significance of Churchman’s Epistemological Position -- A Retrospective Structural Inquiry of the Predicament of Humankind -- Systemic IQ -- Information Systems Development as Inquiring Systems -- Pragmatism Meets Systems Thinking: The Legacy of C. West Churchman -- Churchman and Measurement -- Justifying Knowledge Claims -- Bush Tucker, Conversation and Rich Pictures -- Addressing Indigenous Australian Social Exclusion -- An Exploration and Extension of Churchman’s Insights: Towards the Tackling of Racial Discrimination as a World Problem -- Designing a Replacement for the UN -- Rescuing the Enlightenment from Itself.
Rescuing the Enlightenment from Itself: Critical and Systemic Implications for Democracy presents papers that make the case that good governance is about thinking and practice that can lead to a better balance of social, cultural, political, economic and environmental concerns to ensure a sustainable future for ourselves and for future generations. The work is inspired by the thinking of C. West Churchman and forms the first volume in a new series: C. West Churchman’s Legacy and Related Works. The book features contributions from a range of invited authors including Russell L. Ackoff, Ken Bausch, John van Gigch and Norma Romm. The volume is aimed at academics, post-graduate students and members of professional associations working in the fields of systems sciences, public policy and management, politics, and international relations.
9780387275895
10.1007/0387275894 doi
JA1-92
Volume 1: Rescuing the Enlightenment from Itself : Critical and Systemic Implications for Democracy / edited by John P. Gigch, Janet McIntyre-Mills. - XVII, 370 páginas, recurso en línea.
Springer eBooks
to Volume 1: The Contribution of West Churchman to Sustainable Governance and International Relations -- C. West Churchman and the New World of Co-Design -- Some Notes with Regard to “Thought and Wisdom” -- The Sytems Approach and Its Enemies Helps Us Find the Morality of a Revised Democracy -- Be Your Enemy -- The Social Significance of Churchman’s Epistemological Position -- A Retrospective Structural Inquiry of the Predicament of Humankind -- Systemic IQ -- Information Systems Development as Inquiring Systems -- Pragmatism Meets Systems Thinking: The Legacy of C. West Churchman -- Churchman and Measurement -- Justifying Knowledge Claims -- Bush Tucker, Conversation and Rich Pictures -- Addressing Indigenous Australian Social Exclusion -- An Exploration and Extension of Churchman’s Insights: Towards the Tackling of Racial Discrimination as a World Problem -- Designing a Replacement for the UN -- Rescuing the Enlightenment from Itself.
Rescuing the Enlightenment from Itself: Critical and Systemic Implications for Democracy presents papers that make the case that good governance is about thinking and practice that can lead to a better balance of social, cultural, political, economic and environmental concerns to ensure a sustainable future for ourselves and for future generations. The work is inspired by the thinking of C. West Churchman and forms the first volume in a new series: C. West Churchman’s Legacy and Related Works. The book features contributions from a range of invited authors including Russell L. Ackoff, Ken Bausch, John van Gigch and Norma Romm. The volume is aimed at academics, post-graduate students and members of professional associations working in the fields of systems sciences, public policy and management, politics, and international relations.
9780387275895
10.1007/0387275894 doi
JA1-92