Alan Dean

Chaos and Intoxication

Complexity and Adaptation in the Structure of Human Nature

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Produktbeschreibung

Why are people often so unpredictable? Why do they do things which can cause great personal harm even when they know this to be the case? Chaos and Intoxication examines the nature of drug and alcohol abuse, seeking to address these and many other enduring questions through a detailed discussion of the chaotic nature of human existence. Chaos and Intoxication discusses ideas and research in three general areas: neurobiology and genetics, cognition and collective action, and chaos and complexity theory. These are brought together to develop a general theory of chaos and human nature. This book will be essential reading for students and researchers in sociology and medical anthropology as well as professionals working in the drug and alcohol support services.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780415146142
• ISBN-10: 0415146143
• Artikelnr.: 22133377

Autorenporträt

Alan Dean is Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Hull.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Towards a Chaos Theory of Human Nature
Chapter one: The Embodiment of Intoxication
Chapter two: Biology and Experience
Chapter three: The Evolution of the Mind
Chapter four: Consciousness and Language
Chapter five: Reason
Rationality and Individual Action
Chapter six: Adaptation and Uncertainty in Human Nature
Chapter seven: Principles of Complexity and Chaos
Chapter eight: Working With Chaos
Chapter nine: Chaos and Intoxication
Chapter ten: Is Existence Fractal?