Nico Carlucci
What is the complexity in 'Anthropology? Who are those who deal with it?
Well, they refer, in the final analysis, globalization exists, no one doubts. But for some scholars, not always "anthropological race, has become the invention of a new foundation myth. And that, in reality, it is coercive.
Economists were among the first to "look" of globalization. If they are occupied by "economists", in fact, just concentrating on the concept of culture.
When she arrived in the work of philosophers of science, sociologists of globalization has become "complex", opening the way for a new epistemology that is still given with its protocol. Yes, that is, for example, Edgar Morin is in his books that do not hesitate to give such titles as: "A well-made head: educational reform and thought reform" (R. Cortina, 2000), "The Seven knowledge necessary education of the future "(R. Cortina Editore, 2001). Apart from many good insights Morin and writing "suggestive", the philosopher seems to offer a compendium of knowledge, as he says that consist of "seven" points and that teachers must take ownership to be "good teachers". But give, as does Morin, instructions imprisons the mind, denies freedom of what we call research in itself can not be encapsulated by a grid "well done" to head "well done"! Of "complexity" breathe some professors, academics who seem to have created the "dogma", the ritual of examinations and competitions that leave little room for a truly complex thought. Yet this is not what he wanted the "complexity" when she was born. So, I wonder why it becomes ambiguous "policy" when it is the humanities and social sciences that they borrow? His followers often have a legacy of Marxism. Instead of the era that saw the elimination of private property in favor of collectivization as called for communism, we find the "complexity" the promise of a space "global", an "identity Earth" breathing "homeland." Many of the things that
Morin writes have already been theorized by anthropologists, but without a "church" and proselytizing. I speak of the interrelationship of knowledge, of the traits of a culture whose threads are woven into a whole. We read the classics of 'Anthropology, read Alfred L. Kroeber, its cultural models, we Popper, his epistemology, Bateson and wade in its "ecology of mind.
pioneer of complexity was Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine for chemistry in 1977 that speaks of dissipative structures and irreversibility.
What are the fruits of scientific thought "complex" that exceed the theoretical moment to address what the people really live for? They were written in his name history books and literature for school assembling, for example, the West with the Far East and bringing them together at all. Indeed!
As I said earlier, the new epistemology ends with the redesign, at least within the humanities and social sciences, the ways of the Transcendent. It is tinged with the sacred already see when you decide that knowledge to train their minds to be "sects." Why "seven"? Why can not they be "eight"? Well, the numbers are extremely symbolic, sacred, in fact. Morin does not forget that in Judaism that unknowingly belongs culturally. By the way, remember that seven is the mythological gods of the Kabbalah, of which seven are the plagues of Egypt. To remain in the Bible we see that the Apocalypse of John "says" break the seven seals which will announce the end of the world, followed by the sound of seven trumpets, seven angels play.
But throughout was the old "seven" holds the secret code to interpret the universe. Often, it is considered the number of perfection. Plato called the Anima Mundi. In ancient Egypt, the Pyramids are the number "seven" shaped, in fact, from the triangle (three) on a square (four).
sacred is also influenced by the title of the book Progogine, Russian jew and he also co-written with Isabelle Stenders: "The new alliance: the metamorphosis of science" (Einaudi, 1999).
Here we talk about the phenomena of irreversibility and uncertainty before which classical science suffers a setback. Entropy is a measure of chaos in a physical system or the universe in general.
Prigogine, in fact, lays the foundation, so that a bridge connecting physics, chemistry, ecology, social sciences and the humanities. And all this is "beautiful." But uses the terms "biblical" covenant of the people of God with his new alliance, we recall, is the New Testament.
In conclusion, the social sciences and humanities have really done what he says the Nobel prize for chemistry? I wonder, is this possible without force and "political pact"? but not necessarily the "right" or "left"?
