Tatjana Petzer, Stephan Steiner (ed./eds.)

Synergie
Kultur- und Wissensgeschichte einer Denkfigur
[Synergy. Cultural and Knowledge History of a Figure of Thought]

Trajekte-Buchreihe
Wilhelm Fink Verlag, München 2016, 403 pages
ISBN 978-3-7705-5896-4

Synergy is a key concept in science and society. What is its historical and contemporary use? What makes it a productive paradigm in interdisciplinary scholarship and practice?
As a model for a holistic description of reality, the synergetic perspective makes use of the Aristotelian insight that the whole is more than the sum of its parts—the starting point of theories of collaboration (synérgeia). By exploring cooperative interactions and dynamic structural formations in nature, art, and society, the contributions analyze constellations in the history of philosophy, science, and culture in which concepts of synergy are particularly popular. They also ask for the future potential of this transdisciplinary figure of thought.

 

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