Editor

Wolfgang Hofkirchner (Austria)

Editorial Board

Gabriele Bammer (Australia)
Yaneer Bar-Yam (US)
Gerhard Chroust (Austria)
Arne Collen (USA)
John Collier (South Africa)
Yagmur Denizhan (Turkey)
Irina Dobronravova (Ukraine)
Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski (Germany)
Ramsés Fuenmayor (Venezuela)
Amanda Gregory (UK)
Ernesto Grün (Argentina)
Jifa Gu (China)
Debora Hammond (US)
Enrique G. Herrscher (Argentina)
Francis Heylighen (Belgium)
Cliff Hooker (Australia)
Magdalena Kalaidjieva (Bulgaria)
Helena Knyazeva (Russia)
George Lasker (Canada)
Allenna Leonard (Canada)
Gary Metcalf (US)
Gerald Midgley (New Zealand)
Gianfranco Minati (Italy)
Edgar Morin (France)
Matjaz Mulej (Slovenia)
Yoshiteru Nakamori (Japan)
Andreas Pickel (Canada)
Michel St. Germain (Canada)
Markus Schwaninger (Switzerland)
Len Troncale (US)
Martha Vahl (UK)
Gertrudis van de Vijver (Belgium)
Jennifer Wilby (UK)
Rainer E. Zimmermann (Germany)

Publisher

ISCE Publishing

Aims and Scope

"Unity through diversity" is the title of the 2 volumes Festschrift for Ludwig von Bertalanffy, edited by William Gray and Nicholas D. Rizzo in 1973, published by Gordon and Breach. Unity-through-diversity is acknowledged to be the leitmotif of Ludwig von Bertalanffy's thinking. It is also the leitmotif of this series; that is, providing space for different perspectives while sharing a common goal in order to promote:

• systems sciences, cybernetics and sciences of complexity as the most promising approaches towards global challenges humanity is facing in the new millennium
• transdisciplinarity and consilience throughout all scientific disciplines
• the discussion and comparison of different schools of systems thinking
• attempts to unify systems thinking and to elaborate a metatheoretical framework
• systems history
• critical reflections of the development of systems thinking and the systems movement
• revisiting the goals of General System Theory as set by Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Anatol Rapoport, Kenneth Boulding and others
• social-scientific, that is, socio-economic, political, cultural and historical applications of systems thinking, including ecological and science-and-technology studies applications
• systems philosophy
• monographs or volumes of collected contributions in systems thinking as well as reprints of seminal works

Volumes

Vol.1:

Pouvreau D. 2009. The Dialectical Tragedy of the Concept of Wholeness: Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s Biography Revisited.   Order at ISCE Publishing.

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