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TY - CHAP
T1 - In the multiverse what is real?
T2 - Luhmann, complexity and ANT
AU - Mauthe, Barbara
AU - Webb, Tom
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Barbara Mauthe and Thomas E. Webb examine whether it is possible to engage the theories of autopoiesis, complexity, and actor-network theory in dialogue. To do so, the authors challenge each approach and their individual understanding of reality as one that manages to capture the total reality. The authors contend instead that each theory offers only a partial account of the social and that by engaging the theories in dialogue the limitations of the respective approaches of each theory can be identified, creating the possibility for self-reflection in the light of the newly discovered viewpoints
AB - Barbara Mauthe and Thomas E. Webb examine whether it is possible to engage the theories of autopoiesis, complexity, and actor-network theory in dialogue. To do so, the authors challenge each approach and their individual understanding of reality as one that manages to capture the total reality. The authors contend instead that each theory offers only a partial account of the social and that by engaging the theories in dialogue the limitations of the respective approaches of each theory can be identified, creating the possibility for self-reflection in the light of the newly discovered viewpoints
KW - Luhmann
KW - complexity
KW - ANT
KW - realism
KW - autopoiesis
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9781137015280
SP - 243
EP - 262
BT - Luhman observed
A2 - La Cour, Anders
A2 - Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, Andreas
PB - Palgrave
CY - Basingstoke
ER -