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Entropic philosophy : chaos, breakdown, and creation / Shannon M. Mussett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mussett, Shannon M., author.
- Series:
- Philosophical projections.
- Philosophical projections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Order (Philosophy).
- Entropy.
- entropy.
- order (metaphysical concept).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (221 pages)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2022.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2022]
- Summary:
- Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book traces the development of entropic themes, capturing phenomena ranging from chaos, disorder, homogenization, slackening, disspation, and ultimately death.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Notes
- Introduction
- Different Threads
- Chapter 1: Entropy in Science and Metaphor
- The Science of Entropy
- The Metaphor of Entropy
- Chapter 2: Entropy in Ancient Greek Thought
- Chaos and Disorder in Hesiod
- Entropic Precursors in Presocratic Philosophy
- Plato's Divine Order
- Aristotle's Uncreated Universe
- Chapter 3: Entropy in German Philosophies of Nature
- The Problem of Nature in Kant and Schelling
- Hegel's Philosophy of Nature
- Chapter 4: Leveling Modernity: Entropy in Freud and L é vi-Strauss
- Freudian Entropics
- Lévi-Straussean Entropics
- Chapter 5: Old Age and Entropic Decline
- Machine and Profit
- Beauvoir and Entropic Denial
- Aging and Working in the United States
- Chapter 6: Entropic Excess: Reconfiguring Matter and Waste
- Matter and Waste
- Robert Smithson's Materiality
- Chapter 7: Destruction and the Joy of Creation
- Nietzschean Entropics
- Smithsonian Entropics
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-8181-111-2
- 1-78661-247-X
- OCLC:
- 1264724223
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