Holocaust and beyond: calamities as historical crisis or global change in world order policy modelling?
Autor | Leon Rappoport, Andrea Pitasi |
Cargo | PhD on Sociology and Social Policy by University of Bologna (Bologna, Bologna, Italy). E-mail: studiopitasiconsulting@gmail.com. |
Páginas | 19-38 |
Rev. Direito Econ. Socioambiental, Curitiba, v. 7, n. 1, p. 19-38, jan./jun. 2016
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doi: 10.7213/rev.dir.econ.socioambienta.07.001.AO02
Holocaust and beyond: calamities as historical crisis or
global change in world order policy modelling?
Holocausto e mais além: calamidades como crise histórica ou
mudança global na modelagem política da ordem mundial?
Leon Rappoport
1
Kansas State University (United States of America)
Andrea Pitasi
2
(Italy)
studiopitasiconsulting@gmail.com
Recebido: 07/07/2015 Aprovado: 30/07/2015
Received: 07/07/2015 Approved: 07/30/2015
Como citar este artigo/How to cite this article: RAPPOPORT, Leon; PITASI, Andrea. Holocaust and
beyond: calamities as historical crisis or global change in world order policy modelling? Revista de
Direito Econômico e Socioambiental, Curitiba, v. 7, n. 1, p. 19-38, jan./jun. 2016. doi:
http://dx.doi.org/10.7213/rev.dir.econ.socioambienta.07.001.AO02
1 (1932-2009). Emeritus Professor at Kansas State University (Manhattan, Kansas, USA). PhD by Univer-
sity of Colorado (Boulder, CO, USA).
2 -Pescara, Abruzos, Italy). PhD on
Sociology and Social Policy by University of Bologna (Bologna, Bologna, Italy). E-mail:
studiopitasiconsulting@gmail.com.
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PITASI, A.; RAPPOPORT, L.
Rev. Direito Econ. Socioambiental, Curitiba, v. 7, n. 1, p. 19-38, jan./jun. 2016
Abstract
This paper intends to contribute for the reframe and reconceptualization of the key global
changes and to sketch key guidelines to redesign the most advance d world order policy
modelling, rethinking the concepts of individual, organization and life, from the point of
view of general science of complex syst em. Then, at first, the text aims to analyze how
western civilization has been profoundly and irrevocably changed by the Holocaust. After,
the text p resents four comments or theses on the paradoxical dilemmas emerging from all
the foregoing reflections on the Holocaust and, then, lists some trends of man and society in
calamity situations.
Keywords: complexity; complex systems; holocaust; crisis; global change.
Resumo
Este artigo pretende contribuir para a ressignificação e reconceitualização das mudanças
globais e esb oçar as diretrizes fundamentais para redesenhar a mais avançada modelagem
política da ordem mundial, repensando os conceitos de indivíduo, de organização e da vida,
a partir da ciência geral dos sistemas complexos. Então, em primeiro lugar, o texto tem como
objetivo analisar como a civilização ocidental tem sido profundamente e irrevogavelmente
mudada pelo Holocausto. Após, o texto apr esenta quatro comentários ou teses sobre os
dilemas paradoxais emergentes de todas as reflexões anteriores sobre o Holocausto e, em
seguida, enumera algumas tendências do homem e da sociedade em situações de calamid a-
de.
Palavras-chave: complexidade; sistemas complexos; holocausto; crise; mudança global.
1. Prolongue: a letter
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My dear Andy,
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philosophical works you are usually dealing with, my stuff is light and easy.
3 Leon Rappoport(1932-2009) was Emeritus Professor and past Head of the Dept. of Social Psychology
of the Kansas State University; Manhattan Campus. Where Andrea Pitasi served as Visiting Professor
in September 2001 in the very time of the Attack on America. Rappoport was a very sophisticated
intellectual and scholar strongly inspired by postmodernism and he dealt with both global impact
topics such as genocide and holocaust but also with softer and lighter topics such as food and humor.
nd Andrea Pitasi cooperated in several publications Leon con-
sidered Andrea a kind of intellectual and spiritual son and Andrea was always proud and delighted to
consider Leon his intellectual father.
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