Autor: Carlos Jesús Delgado Díaz

Resumen: In this paper I would like to pay attention to two items: First, to how I understand complexity, expressing some ideas through eight thesis that summarize this understanding. Second, hardly touching the surface of human-social complexity, to d o it from the perspective of that part of reality that we call Third World, and drawing near to it from the disciplinary problematic of the social sciences, specially political science. To think complexity from the human-social standpoint means, first of all, as I believe, to see ourselves -researchers- as persons who participate in social life in a context, and not as transcendental subjects owners of a privileged and neutral epistemological position that endows us with a definitive knowledge.

Palabras clave: epistemology, complexity, social sciences, every day life, politics, human complexity

Como citar: Delgado Díaz, Carlos Jesús (2004). The political significance of small things. Emergence: Complexity Organizations, 6(1-2), Fall 2004. Special Double Issue, EUA.