Volume 1: Rescuing the Enlightenment from Itself Critical and Systemic Implications for Democracy /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gigch, John P. van (Editor), McIntyre-Mills, Janet (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Subjects: Political science.; Social policy.; Public administration.; Social sciences.; Political Science and International Relations.; Political Science.; Social Policy.; Public Administration.; Social Sciences, general.

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 sustainabl...

Table of Contents:

• 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.