A response to the dialogical hermeneutics of critical complexity thinking in Kunneman’s re-framing of ‘The political importance of voluntary work’.

A response to the dialogical hermeneutics of critical complexity thinking in Kunneman’s re-framing of ‘The political importance of voluntary work’.

Author(s): Preiser, R.
Link to CST author(s): Prof. Rika Preiser
Publication: Foundations of Science
Year: 2016
Full reference: Preiser, R. 2016. A response to the dialogical hermeneutics of critical complexity thinking in Kunneman’s re-framing of ‘The political importance of voluntary work’. Foundations of Science 21(2): 439–443
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10699-014-9405-8

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Summary

Responding to Kunneman’s argument that the notion of ‘ethical complexity’ introduces an existential and ethical turn in the field of complexity thinking, it is argued that Kunneman’s concept of ‘diapoiesis’ corresponds to a critical interpretation of ‘complexity thinking’. By applying critical complexity thinking to the notion of voluntary work, Kunneman explores the possibility of rearticulating the notion of voluntary work outside the boundaries of the static economic paradigm of consumption and production of labor. He redefines voluntary work in terms of the many tensions that emerge as a result of belonging to a number of spheres simultaneously. Reconfigured by what can be called a ‘dialogical hermeneutics of complexity thinking’ Kunneman exposes the moral narrative that underpins the ethical imperative that is inextricably linked to ‘civic meaningfulness’.