We looked for Knowledge Organization in the index of volume 2 and could not find a suitable entry among the 131 ones under Knowledge with many subentries. There was also no entry under Classification , one may assume that both concepts have not as yet been recognized as human values. Insights could be gained, however, by looking into the descriptions going with Systematics which has been linked with a number of concepts, such as cyclic knowledge , discriminative knowledge , experience , creativity , domination , individuality , pattern , polarity , potentiality , relatedness , repetition , structure , subsistence , wholeness , ninefold knowledge , polar knowledge , potential knowledge , relational knowledge , etc., all of these relating to the 'modes of knowledge' identified by J.G. Bennett and inspired by G. Gurdjieff. The challenge is to find meaningful ways to navigate through such complexity and to evoke imaginative insights in response to it. In a section on transformative approaches, the editors explore the implications for computer graphics, transformative conferencing and the design of policy cycles capable of responding to vicious problem cycles.
Much emphasis is placed on the potential of new metaphors for governance as an unexplored resource.
The suggestion is made that many institutions and policies are trapped in inadequate policy metaphors. Radically different perspectives are offered by this really exciting source of descriptions of human capabilities to policy-makers, social researchers and those concerned with development strategies. New approaches to understanding and action through the deliberate juxtaposition, within the same context, of contradictory perceptions and fundamentally incompatible viewpoints will be discovered and new insights will be evoked. One can only hope that our public and scientific libraries are still able to acquire these volumes for the benefit of those being able to understand what mankind has been given to overcome the world problems of today and to act accordingly.