Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Prefatory note V
3. Preface VII
4. Table of Contents XI
5. I. General
6. Evolving complexity in social science 3
7. Evolutionary modelling 39
8. Can we apply synergetics to the human sciences? 58
9. From crisp systems to fuzzy systems 79
10. Systems and societies: The logic of sociocultural evolution 104
11. Systems-theoretical approach to the concept of organization 126
12. No system can be improved in all respects 143
13. The plurality of systems, and the unity of the world 165
14. Systems ideology in human and social sciences 180
15. Systems theory and the evolution of science 303
16. Emerging systems 318
17. II. Semiotics
18. Semiotic systems 337
19. Inquiries into semiotic principles and systems 350
20. Constructive contradictions 356
21. III. Knowledge and cognition
22. Gödelian aspects of nature and knowledge 385
23. Cognitive systems theory 404
24. IV. Culture
25. Concept of the 'Second Reality' from the perspective of an empirical systems theory on the basis of radical constructivism 423
26. Self-organization of culture 461
27. V. Music
28. Systemic organization and the development of the European musical language 479
29. A systems theoretical approach to language and music 514
30. VI. Language
31. On the nature of tension in dialectal networks 549
32. Hurst's indicators and text 572
33. A note on language competences as dynamic systems 589
34. Chaos, fractals and dissipative structures in language 596
35. VII. Literature
36. Fractopoi, chaosmos, or merely simplexity-complicity? 623
37. A systems-oriented approach to literary studies 646
38. VIII. In lieu of an EPILOGUE
39. Systems and the human sciences 671
40. Index of names 756
41. Index of subjects 769
42. The authors 775