Shannon M. Mussett

Entropic Philosophy

Chaos, Breakdown, and Creation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book traces the development of entropic themes, capturing phenomena ranging from chaos, disorder, homogenization, slackening, disspation, and ultimately death.

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Produktdetails

• Philosophical Projections
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 515g
• ISBN-13: 9781786612465
• ISBN-10: 1786612461
• Artikelnr.: 60000286

Autorenporträt

Shannon Mussett is Professor of Philosophy at Utah Valley University. She specializes in Existentialism, German Idealism, Feminist Theory, and Aesthetics. She is co-editor of Beauvoir and the History of Philosophy from Plato to Butler (SUNY Press, 2012) and The Contradictions of Freedom: Philosophical Essays on Simone de Beauvoir's 'Les Mandarins' (SUNY Press, 2006).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Privation and Disorder: Entropy in Greek Thought
2. Decay and Breakdown in Nature: Kant and Hegel on Organic Purposiveness and Death
3. Leveling the Modern Epoch: The Freudian Death Drive and Lévi-Straussean Entropics
4. Entropic Denial: How the Aged and Exploited Bear the Burden of Late Capitalism
5. Entropic Places and Peoples
6. In Praise of Destruction: Nietzsche and Smithson on the Eternal Joy of Becoming
Bibliography
Index