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- Title
Complexity theory and continental philosophy - part 1: A review of Letiche's Phenomenological Complexity Theory.
- Authors
Sheard, Stephen
- Abstract
Recent studies in Organizational theory have directed themselves towards poststructuralist interpretation. A variant of such interpretation is based on theorists derived from the traditions of phenomenology. Letiche's PCT is examined as a derivative case of this theorization. Complexity theory is also scrutinized, relative to arguments of the theorist Derrida (especially), but also Bergson. It is argued that complexity theory illustrates problems relative to the application of phenomenological theorization which relate in part to the difficulties of the analogical transfer of theories derived in the physical (or natural) sciences to the social world. A debate on the philosophical status of phenomenology (especially related to Derrida's differance) presents a new angle on the extensibility of complexity to the human realm. This aspect impinges on the issue of the value and implications of the 'linguistic' turn relative to the complexity theory enterprise.
- Publication
Emergence: Complexity & Organization, 2005, Vol 7, Issue 3/4, p105
- ISSN
1521-3250
- Publication type
Academic Journal