Rescuing the Enlightenment from Itself

Critical and Systemic Implications for Democracy
1. Auflage. Softcover version of original hardcover Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-1-4419-3903-6
Verlag: Springer US

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 370 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 587 g

Reihe: C. West Churchman's Legacy and Related Works

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.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

McIntyre-Mills, Janet

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politik: Sachbuch, Politikerveröffentlichungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.