Complexity, Difference and Identity An Ethical Perspective /

"Complexity" has been part of the academic discourse for a decade or two. Texts on Complexity fall mainly in two categories: fairly technical and mathematical on the one hand, and fairly and general on the other. Paul Cilliers<U+0019> book Complexity and Postmodernism (Routledge 1998...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Cilliers, Paul. (Editor), Preiser, Rika. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2010.
Series:Issues in Business Ethics, 26
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9187-1
Table of Contents:
  • Why Difference? A Preface; Paul Cilliers, Rika Preiser
  • Complexity
  • 1. Complexity, Difference and Identity; Paul Cilliers
  • 2. The Complex <U+001c>I . The Formation of Identity in Complex Systems; Tanya De Villiers-Botha, Paul Cilliers
  • Difference
  • 3. Complexity: the Evolution of Identity and Diversity; Peter Allen, Mark Strathern, Liz Varga
  • 4. Comparison, Diversity and Complexity; David Byrne
  • Identity
  • 5. A Dynamical Approach to Identity and Diversity in Complex Systems; John Collier
  • 6. Negativity, difference and critique: the ethical moment in complexity; Eduard Grebe
  • Complexity and Ethics
  • 7. The Complexity of Difference, Ethics and the Law; Wilmien Wicomb
  • 8. Ethical Complexity; Harry Kunneman
  • Ethical Consequences
  • 9. Corporate Identity, Responsibility and the Ethics of Complexity; Minka Woermann
  • 10. Business Ethics from below: rethinking organisational values, strategy and trust; Hans M<U+00fc>ller
  • 11. Agonistic Engagements: Difference, Meaning and Deliberation in South African Cities; Mark Swilling, Pierre Roux, Amľie Guyot
  • 12. Africa: Globalisation and the Ethical; Leonhard Praeg
  • Conclusion
  • 13. Unpacking the Ethics of Complexity. Concluding Reflections; Rika Preiser, Paul Cilliers.