As a collection of papers it is well-written, it is a thoughtful and exploratory analysis, and could well be used as a basis for further, broader and deeper investigations of both systems analysis and postmodernism. Essentially, this volume is an ambitious attempt to provide an alternative to the problems generated by the relativist isolationism of postmodernism. Systems theory, with its recognition that relational processes are not but operate within networks of entangled relations, its recognition that interpretation is developmental, exploratory and flexible, would seem a strong and constructive response to both the problems of the collapse of the modernist framework and the problems of postmodernism.