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Living Systems: An Introductory Guide to the Theories of Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, introduces the thinking of the two great Chilean biologists. Written to make their body of work more accessible for both academic and non-academic readers, topics include the ontology of the observer, the operation of living systems, living systems and the environment, the construction of worlds and the constitution of cultures (the patriarchal and an alternative, a matristic culture).

This is a bold, brilliant, provocative and puzzling work. It demands a radical shift in standpoint, an almost paradoxical posture in which living systems are described in terms of what lies outside the domain of descriptions. Professor Humberto Maturana, with his colleague Francisco Varela, have undertaken the construction of a systematic theoretical biology which attempts to define living systems not as they are objects of observation and description, nor even as in­ teracting systems, but as self-contained unities whose only reference is to them­ selves. Thus, the standpoint of description of such unities from the 'outside', i. e. , by an observer, already seems to violate the fundamental requirement which Maturana and Varela posit for the characterization of such system- namely, that they are autonomous, self-referring and self-constructing closed systems - in short, autopoietic systems in their terms. Yet, on the basis of such a conceptual method, and such a theory of living systems, Maturana goes on to define cognition as a biological phenomenon; as, in effect, the very nature of all living systems. And on this basis, to generate the very domains of interac­ tion among such systems which constitute language, description and thinking.

In Animal Rites, Cary Wolfe examines contemporary notions of humanism and ethics by reconstructing a little known but crucial underground tradition of theorizing the animal from Wittgenstein, Cavell, and Lyotard to Lévinas, Derrida, Žižek, Maturana, and Varela. Through detailed readings of how discourses of race, sexuality, colonialism, and animality interact in twentieth-century American culture, Wolfe explores what it means, in theory and critical practice, to take seriously "the question of the animal."

This is a bold, brilliant, provocative and puzzling work. It demands a radical shift in standpoint, an almost paradoxical posture in which living systems are described in terms of what lies outside the domain of descriptions. Professor Humberto Maturana, with his colleague Francisco Varela, have undertaken the construction of a systematic theoretical biology which attempts to define living systems not as they are objects of observation and description, nor even as in­ teracting systems, but as self-contained unities whose only reference is to them­ selves. Thus, the standpoint of description of such unities from the 'outside', i. e. , by an observer, already seems to violate the fundamental requirement which Maturana and Varela posit for the characterization of such system- namely, that they are autonomous, self-referring and self-constructing closed systems - in short, autopoietic systems in their terms. Yet, on the basis of such a conceptual method, and such a theory of living systems, Maturana goes on to define cognition as a biological phenomenon; as, in effect, the very nature of all living systems. And on this basis, to generate the very domains of interac­ tion among such systems which constitute language, description and thinking.

This is a bold, brilliant, provocative and puzzling work. It demands a radical shift in standpoint, an almost paradoxical posture in which living systems are described in terms of what lies outside the domain of descriptions. Professor Humberto Maturana, with his colleague Francisco Varela, have undertaken the construction of a systematic theoretical biology which attempts to define living systems not as they are objects of observation and description, nor even as in­ teracting systems, but as self-contained unities whose only reference is to them­ selves. Thus, the standpoint of description of such unities from the 'outside', i. e. , by an observer, already seems to violate the fundamental requirement which Maturana and Varela posit for the characterization of such system- namely, that they are autonomous, self-referring and self-constructing closed systems - in short, autopoietic systems in their terms. Yet, on the basis of such a conceptual method, and such a theory of living systems, Maturana goes on to define cognition as a biological phenomenon; as, in effect, the very nature of all living systems. And on this basis, to generate the very domains of interac­ tion among such systems which constitute language, description and thinking.

Echeverría nos ofrece una nueva interpretacion de lo que significa ser humano, no desde los antiguos parámetros que nos han servido de base para obserar la vida, sino desde fuera de ellos. Se trata de una propuesta posmoderna y posmetafísica que aha recibido la influencia de autores como Maturana, Flores, Searle, Graves, Austin y Heidegger, y se basa en la tesis de que todo fenómeno social es un fenómeno linguístico. Rafael Echeverría es fundador de Newfield Consulting, empresa consultora y de formación gerencial que opera en los Estados Unidos, México, Venezuela, España y Brasil, liderando a nivel mundial el desarrollo de programas de formación de especialistas en coaching ontológico empresarial y de construcción de equipos de alto desempeño. Es sociólogo de la Universidad Católica de Chile y Doctor en Filosofía de la Universidad de Londres. Es miembro de número de la World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS). Fue profesor de la Universidad Católica de Chile, consultor de UNICEF y de la Oficina Internacional del Trabajo (OIT) de las Naciones Unidas. Ha sido asesor del Tec de Monterrey (México), consultor de la Comisión Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología del Brasil, colaborador del Center for Quality of Management (CQM), en Boston, y miembro del Comité Coordinador de The Society for Organizacional Learning International (SOL).

Book by Humberto R. Maturana, Francisco J. Varela

Living Systems: An Introductory Guide to the Theories of Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela, introduces the thinking of the two great Chilean biologists. Written to make their body of work more accessible for both academic and non-academic readers, topics include the ontology of the observer, the operation of living systems, living systems and the environment, the construction of worlds and the constitution of cultures (the patriarchal and an alternative, a matristic culture).

Echeverría nos ofrece una nueva interpretacion de lo que significa ser humano, no desde los antiguos parámetros que nos han servido de base para obserar la vida, sino desde fuera de ellos. Se trata de una propuesta posmoderna y posmetafísica que aha recibido la influencia de autores como Maturana, Flores, Searle, Graves, Austin y Heidegger, y se basa en la tesis de que todo fenómeno social es un fenómeno linguístico. Rafael Echeverría es fundador de Newfield Consulting, empresa consultora y de formación gerencial que opera en los Estados Unidos, México, Venezuela, España y Brasil, liderando a nivel mundial el desarrollo de programas de formación de especialistas en coaching ontológico empresarial y de construcción de equipos de alto desempeño. Es sociólogo de la Universidad Católica de Chile y Doctor en Filosofía de la Universidad de Londres. Es miembro de número de la World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS). Fue profesor de la Universidad Católica de Chile, consultor de UNICEF y de la Oficina Internacional del Trabajo (OIT) de las Naciones Unidas. Ha sido asesor del Tec de Monterrey (México), consultor de la Comisión Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología del Brasil, colaborador del Center for Quality of Management (CQM), en Boston, y miembro del Comité Coordinador de The Society for Organizacional Learning International (SOL).