Essential Reading in Systems

Posted on May 15th, 2008 by

Some key works in Systems Theory:

Lovelock's works and online postings.

General System Theory, Ludwig Von Bertalanffy
The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Understanding, Maturana and Varela
Social Systems, Essays on Self-Reference, Niklas Luhmann
Science of Logic, G.W.F. Hegel
Essays on Life Itself, Robert Rosen
The Symbiotic Planet, Lynn Margulis
The Web of Life, Fritjof Capra
Ethics, Spinoza
A Thousand Plateaus, Gilles Deleuze
From Being to Becoming, Ilya Prigogine
Order Out of Chaos, Prigogine with Isabelle Stengers
The Systems View of the World, Ervin Laszlo
Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature

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44 minutes later

Siona said

Oh, this is a great list! I've been deeply influenced by Peter Senge's co-authored Presence, too. :)

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