Complex Society - In the Middle of a Middle World

Here is a presentation of the ideas in the above titled book. A few brief excerpts follow consistent with my presentation here.

"The concept of social complexity rests on the incommensurability of its two explanatory axes: vertical and in horizontal. Only when axes orthogonally intersect they create a coordinate plane in the middle, which enables complex explanation in the mesoscopic, evaluative way. In the geometry of thinking, a complex whole is not comprehensible directly and objectively in terms of its constitutive domains, but only by evaluation of overlaps in the area of their inconsistencies arising from incompleteness and uncertainty."

"The mesoscopic description of social complexity is not rationally scientific but evaluative and so irrationally rational. The description builds understanding on facts and on values, assuring that bias, asymmetry, and incompatibility, not order and certainty is the framework for rational inquiry. The irrational component arises in methodology through recognizing the void (Derrida) in every rational claim (Bourdieu) that results from its indeterminacy (Heisenberg) and incompleteness (Gödel). At the heart of existence and meaning then is not essence but difference, absence not substance."