Simplifying Complexity

Rhetoric and the Social Politics of Dealing with Ignorance

George E. Yoos (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

178 Seiten

2016
De Gruyter Open (Verlag)
978-3-11-045056-9 (ISBN)

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Simplifying complexity explores how to eliminate ignorance, which in the view of the author, is the purpose of the sciences and technologies and their consequent developments. More specifically, the book deals with the plurality of the sciences and technologies. It is about the way in which each of them develops around the prosthetics of printed languages and the models used as visual aids to help us create new modes of communication to understand and solve human problems. Consequently, the task is to simplify the complexity that we find in different sciences, both social and physical. In his collection of essays, George E. Yoos surveys a number of different models that have evolved from the innate, biological forms of grammar, logic, and modes of orientation. He investigates the evolution of socially constructed systems of numeracy and measurement that have evolved and developed in different languages for the use in scientific and technological communication. He identifies methods derived from three distinct personal experiences: the use of types of prosthetic, mnemonic, and attention controlling devices, in order to yield simpler perspectives of complex states of affairs. George E. Yoos, emeritus professor, is a legend in the field of rhetoric. Founder and editor of the Rhetoric Society Quarterly [1972-1985], author of Reframing Rhetoric [2007], Politics and Rhetoric [2009], and fellow of the Rhetoric Society of America.

George E. Yoos, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at St. Cloud State University, USA

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.1.2016
Zusatzinfo	18 b/w ill., 9 b/w tbl.
Verlagsort	Warschau/Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 240 mm
Gewicht	650 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
Schlagworte	Communication • Communication in science • Communication of technical information • Communication Studies • DLL37 • electronic books • Frames • ignorance • Knowledge • language • Language and • Language and Literature • LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES • Literary criticism • Literatur-Lexikon • Models • Philology. Linguistics • Philosophie • Philosophy • Political Science • Political science (General) • Political Science, other • rhetoric • rhetoric, sciences and technologies, knowledge, ignorance, frames, models • sciences and technologies • Visual communication
ISBN-10	3-11-045056-9 / 3110450569
ISBN-13	978-3-11-045056-9 / 9783110450569
Zustand	Neuware