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5.0 out of 5 stars
It is one of the major seminal books of our century.,
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This review is from: Holism and Evolution (Hardcover)
The maverick genius, Jan Christian Smuts (1870--1950)invented the words 'holism' and 'holistic' in his book, Holism and Evolution, which stresses the importance of structure and function in holistic reference-frames. The first half of the book is brilliant. He discourses on how losses obtain from analysis and how gains obtain from holistic views. Function is put as an emergent quality, a something more than a mere sum of its parts. The ideas expressed in this book had great influence on the research methods and expositions in biology and medicine and have since extended to all systems studies. From the less edited second half of his book it becomes clear that he decided to publish before he finished the editing he had so carefully begun. It merits five stars for its vast range of applications in systemic reasoning.
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Holism and Evolution by Jan Christiaan Smuts (Hardcover - July 25, 1973)
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