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Systems thinking and critique. I. What is critique
Ramsés Fuenmayor
- Vol. 3, Iss: 6, pp 525-544
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In this article, the authors present a phenomenological inquiry into the concept of critique in Modern Western Philosophy and Contemporary Systems Thinking, and the result of the inquiry is a model of the possibilities of critique which is used to interpret four “moments” of critique.Abstract:
This paper is the first in a trilogy which intends to discuss the notion of critique within two different contexts: Modern Western Philosophy and Contemporary Systems Thinking. This first paper presents a phenomenological inquiry into the concept of “critique.” The result of the inquiry is a model of the possibilities ofcritique which is used to interpret four “moments” of critique in Modern Western Philosophy.read more
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