Shannon M. Mussett

Entropic Philosophy

Chaos, Breakdown, and Creation

• Broschiertes 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: 15. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9781538165188
• ISBN-10: 153816518X
• Artikelnr.: 68537205

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. Acknowledgments
1. Preface
2. Introduction
3. Chapter One: Entropy in Science and Metaphor
4. Chapter Two: Entropy in Ancient Greek Thought
5. Chapter Three: Entropy in German Philosophies of Nature
6. Chapter Four: Leveling Modernity: Entropy in Freud and Lévi-Strauss
7. Chapter Five: Old Age and Entropic Decline
8. Chapter Six: Entropic Excess: Reconfiguring Matter and Waste
9. Chapter Seven: Destruction and the Joy of Creation
10. Conclusion
11. Bibliography
12. Author Bio