William A Rasch

The Brain in a Nutshell: Thirty Things That Will Help You Understand The Science Of The Brain

A prosthesis that can communicate with and be controlled by your brain. A microchip placed in the eye of a person previously blind that allows the patient to see again. A machine that can tell us what a person is thinking about. Drugs tailor made for a specific person to help them deal with emotiona...

Sovereignty and its Discontents: On the Primacy of Conflict and the Structure of the Political (Birkbeck Law Press) by William Rasch (2004-08-18)

Niklas Luhmann's Modernity: The Paradoxes of Differentiation (Cultural Memory in the Present) by William Rasch (2000-12-01)

[(Sovereignty and Its Discontents: On the Primacy of Conflict and the Structure of the Political )] [Author: William Rasch] [Jan-2005]

By William Rasch - Observing Complexity: Systems Theory and Postmodernity

Observing Complexity: Systems Theory and Postmodernity

The rubric of systems theory brings together conceptual models and approaches in the sciences and social sciences that study complexity. It attempts to provide a coherent means of describing all systems, whether organic or inorganic, and offers a theory of knowledge that can account for the integrat...

Sovereignty and its Discontents: On the Primacy of Conflict and the Structure of the Political (Birkbeck Law Press)

This book argues for the centrality of conflict in any notion of the political. In contrast to many of the attempts to re-think the political in the wake of the collapse of traditional leftist projects, it also argues for the logical and/or ontological primacy of violence over 'peace'. The notion of...

Theories of Distinction: Redescribing the Descriptions of Modernity (Cultural Memory in the Present)

The essays in this volume by Germany's leading social theorist of the late twentieth century formulate what he considered to be the preconditions for an adequate theory of modern society.The first two essays deal with the modern European philosophical and scientific tradition, notably the ogy of Edm...

Niklas Luhmann's Modernity: The Paradoxes of Differentiation

Niklas Luhmann's Modernity: The Paradoxes of Diffentiation

Theories of Distinction: Redescribing the Descriptions of Modernity

Theories of Distinction: Redescribing the Descriptions of Modernity

Observing Complexity: Systems Theory and Postmodernity

Observing Complexity: Systems Theory and Postmodernity