Reviews for Systems science and world order

The average rating for Systems science and world order based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-04-26 00:00:00 Jeff Holzimn The book is short, but deep. Ervin Laszlo, one of the great systems thinkers, discusses the integrative approach and how it could lead to a more intelligent future of the mankind. The arguments are profound and philosophical, good for further thinking. I liked the chapter about consciousness and subjectivity. As the author points out: "Subjectivity is the slave of actuality".

Review # 2 was written on 2011-06-04 00:00:00 Jason Campbell I'll never do this book justice without writing something longer that it is itself. The mechanistic, reductionist view of the world we got from the classical sciences (from Newton if not before) is inadequate to explain the world. It had already failed in physics, and we're seeing it fail now in our economy and ecology. If you have any curiosity about how our world works as a set of increasingly complex and differentiated, yet interdependent, systems, you owe it to yourself to read this. (I just can't say what and how much background knowledge is needed to frame it.)