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Immersive Systemic Knowing: Advancing Systems Thinking Beyond Rational Analysis (Contemporary Systems Thinking) by Raghav Rajagopalan; Gerald Midgley is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Immersive Systemic Knowing: Advancing Systems Thinking Beyond Rational Analysis (Contemporary Systems Thinking) about?

This book advances systems thinking by introducing a new philosophy of systemic knowing. It argues that there are inescapable limits to rational understanding. Humankind has always depended on extended ways of knowing to complement the rational-analytic approach. The book establishes that the application of such methods is fundamental to systemic practice. The author advocates embracing two modes of consciousness: intentionality, which Western philosophy has long recognized, and non-intentional awareness, which Eastern philosophy additionally highlights. The simultaneity of these two modes of consciousness, and the variety of knowings they spawn are harnessed for a more holistic, systemic knowing. Four practices from fields related to systems thinking are examined: two contemporary action research methodologies from the US and the UK; the Sumedhian (Indian) approach to inquiry about processes within groups; and a technique of group psychotherapy originating in Eastern Europe. Each of these systematically harnesses knowing using both modes of consciousness. Therefore, the author insists, such approaches must be included in systemic practice, in purposeful and methodical juxtapositio

Who reads Immersive Systemic Knowing: Advancing Systems Thinking Beyond Rational Analysis (Contemporary Systems Thinking)?

Author

Raghav Rajagopalan; Gerald Midgley

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9783030491345

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Business, Science, Philosophy