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Preface
I. General
Evolving complexity in social science
Evolutionary modelling
Can we apply synergetics to the human sciences?
From crisp systems to fuzzy systems
Systems and societies: The logic of sociocultural evolution
Systems-theoretical approach to the concept of organization
No system can be improved in all respects
The plurality of systems, and the unity of the world
Systems ideology in human and social sciences
Systems theory and the evolution of science
Emerging systems
II. Semiotics
Semiotic systems
Inquiries into semiotic principles and systems
Constructive contradictions
III. Knowledge and cognition
Gödelian aspects of nature and knowledge
Cognitive systems theory
IV. Culture
Concept of the ‘Second Reality’ from the perspective of an empirical systems theory on the basis of radical constructivism
Self-organization of culture
V. Music
Systemic organization and the development of the European musical language
A systems theoretical approach to language and music
VI. Language
On the nature of tension in dialectal networks
Hurst’s indicators and text
A note on language competences as dynamic systems
Chaos, fractals and dissipative structures in language
VII. Literature
Fractopoi, chaosmos, or merely simplexity-complicity?
A systems-oriented approach to literary studies
VIII. In lieu of an EPILOGUE
Systems and the human sciences
Index of names
Index of subjects

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