Note: I-IV -- , Prefatory note -- , Preface -- , Table of Contents -- , I. General -- , Evolving complexity in social science -- , Evolutionary modelling -- , Can we apply synergetics to the human sciences? -- , From crisp systems to fuzzy systems -- , Systems and societies: The logic of sociocultural evolution -- , Systems-theoretical approach to the concept of organization -- , No system can be improved in all respects -- , The plurality of systems, and the unity of the world -- , Systems ideology in human and social sciences -- , Systems theory and the evolution of science -- , Emerging systems -- , II. Semiotics -- , Semiotic systems -- , Inquiries into semiotic principles and systems -- , Constructive contradictions -- , III. Knowledge and cognition -- , Gödelian aspects of nature and knowledge -- , Cognitive systems theory -- , IV. Culture -- , Concept of the 'Second Reality' from the perspective of an empirical systems theory on the basis of radical constructivism -- , Self-organization of culture -- , V. Music -- , Systemic organization and the development of the European musical language -- , A systems theoretical approach to language and music -- , VI. Language -- , On the nature of tension in dialectal networks -- , Hurst's indicators and text -- , A note on language competences as dynamic systems -- , Chaos, fractals and dissipative structures in language -- , VII. Literature -- , Fractopoi, chaosmos, or merely simplexity-complicity? -- , A systems-oriented approach to literary studies -- , VIII. In lieu of an EPILOGUE -- , Systems and the human sciences -- , Index of names -- , Index of subjects -- , The authors , Issued also in print. , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.