Foundational Importance and Contemporary Relevance of Alexander Bogdanov's Work and Ideas

2. lost paradigm
the systems paradigm failing to
attain a sense of compact, coherent, accessible organisation / unity

3. reorganise systems
approaches

4. • Boundary critique systemic intervention

5. • Philosophy and history of science literatures (or HPS) do not
refer to systems, cybernetics, and complexity literatures when
discussing the notion of the unity of science
• Systems, cybernetics, and complexity literatures do not refer to
the HPS literature
•Bogdanov andTektology remain marginalised

10. • Systems paradigm was the scientific synthesis going beyond the
two strands of contemporary Western thought, by targeting the
unity of science
Reductionism

11. • Bodanov’s Tektology - the only fully developed conceptual framework

14. • Bogdanov reversed Dilthey’s argument for an independent social
science and eliminated Simmel’s (and the Frankfurt school’s) anti-
positivist position – the unity of science is not a ‘positivist’ stand.