Method: Towards a Study of Humankind, Vol. 1: The Nature of Nature (American University Studies Series, No. 5, Philosophy, Vol. 3)

Product Description Method: The Nature of Nature is the first of several volumes exposing Edgar Morin's general systems view on life and society. The present volume maintains that the organization of all life and society necessitates the simultaneous interplay of order and disorder. All systems, physical, biological, social, political and informational, incessantly reshape part and whole through feedback, thereby generating increasingly complex systems. For continued evolution, these simultaneously complementary, concurrent, and antagonistic systems require a priority of love over truth, of subject over object, of Sy-bernetics over cybernetics. About the Author The Author: Edgar Morin, author of more than 30 books on movies, politics, sociology, and general systems, recently retired as Professor at the University of Paris and as a director at the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). He is considered one of France's foremost exponents of information theory and general systems theory. He has lectured at universities around the world, and has several times been Visiting Professor of French at New York University. He is currently completing Method, a study of humankind dealing with the physical, biological, sociological and mythic systems enveloping human beings.