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General System Theory (Paperback)

by Ludwig Von Bertalanffy (Author)
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  • Paperback: 295 pages
  • Publisher: George Braziller Inc; Revised edition edition (Dec 1968)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0807604534
  • ISBN-13: 978-0807604533
  • Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.7 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars The best intent to transcend the mechanistic worldview, 3 Jun 1999
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GST is certainly the best intent we have to transcend the mechanistic worldview from the point of view of the new science. And there is just one way to transcend that framework and it just by positing a new sphere to manage complexity: the sphere of life.Teilhard, Bergson, Bertanffy were "biologists" but also philosophers, great philosophers and this is probably why today the Science of Complexity is looking at Life, and why the new thinkers are more and more aware that if we want to understand organizations, human organizations, we must first understand life. So we find a clear turn in books about complexity and administration trying to learn from the lesson of life...this is the only way to enter the age of adaptation as Thomas Petzinger calls it. Our time owes to GST a great deal, and as so, GST stands as a monument to that whole movement toward the global nature of our civilization of the same kind of The Phenomenon of Man and Creative Evolution.
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5.0 out of 5 stars it was the complate reference of general system theory, 24 Dec 1996
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General System theory is the main point of life. This approach teaches us the real dynamics of world.As a manager, you can lead your organization with zero deficit. As an engineer, you can produce a rational products.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Simply Brilliant, 19 Oct 2009
By Andrew Dalby "ardalby" (oxford) - See all my reviews
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Bertalanffy was so far ahead of his time. He first developed his System Theory approach before the second world war and this book brings together all of his ideas. This edition was written in 1968 shortly before his death. It is at times quite a technical work and sometimes the authors style can be a little grating (he does not forget to say how he invented the entire field multiple times), but it is amazing that such significant work was done so long ago.

If you are interested in Systems Biology then you should start here as it contains many of the ideas that we are only now rediscovering.
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