and social sciences / SEPPÄNEN, JOUKO -- Systems theory and the evolution of science / STICHWEH, RUDOLF -- Emerging systems / WUKETITS, FRANZ M. -- II. Semiotics -- Semiotic systems / BUNGE, MARIO -- Inquiries into semiotic principles and systems / FIGGE, UDO L. -- Constructive contradictions / SCHWEIZER, HARALD -- III. Knowledge and cognition -- Gödelian aspects of nature and knowledge / NICOLESCU, BASARAB -- Cognitive systems theory / RICKHEIT, GERT / STROHNER, HANS -- IV. Culture -- Concept of the 'Second Reality' from the perspective of an empirical systems theory on the basis of radical constructivism / FLEISCHER, MICHAEL -- Self- organization of culture / NOBIS, ADAM -- V. Music -- Systemic organization and the development of the European musical language / BORODA, MOISEI -- A systems theoretical approach to language and music / KÖHLER, REINHARD / MARTINÁKOVÁ- RENDEKOVÁ, ZUZANA -- VI. Language -- On the nature of tension in dialectal networks / GOEBL, HANS -- Hurst's indicators and text / HREBÍCEK, LUDEK -- A note on language competences as dynamic systems / SCHNELLE, HELMUT -- Chaos, fractals and dissipative structures in language / WILDGEN, WOLFGANG -- VII. Literature -- Fractopoi, chaosmos, or merely simplexity-complicity? / MERRELL, FLOYD -- A systems-oriented approach to literary studies / SCHMIDT, SIEGFRIED J. -- VIII. In lieu of an EPILOGUE -- Systems and the human sciences / KOCH, WALTER A. -- Index of names -- Index of subjects -- The authors