Entropic Philosophy

Chaos, Breakdown, and Creation

Shannon M. Mussett (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

220 Seiten

2023
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-6518-8 (ISBN)

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

Now is a time of tremendous anxiety about the present and future state of the world. As the second law of thermodynamics states, entropy never decreases, time marches relentlessly forward, and closed systems inevitably break down. Entropy serves as a powerful metaphor capturing expressions of growing malaise and decline.
Entropic Philosophy: Chaos, Breakdown, and Creation builds on the meaning of entropy from the Greek entropia, signifying “a turning toward” or “transformation.” Developing a philosophy of entropy, this book draws variously from anthropology, psychoanalysis, literature, art, and the history of philosophy. This approach opens pathways for reverence and care that are crucial in preventing fear, existential inertia, and despair.

Shannon Mussett is Professor of Philosophy at Utah Valley University

1.Acknowledgments

2.Preface

3.Introduction

4.Chapter One: Entropy in Science and Metaphor

5.Chapter Two: Entropy in Ancient Greek Thought

6.Chapter Three: Entropy in German Philosophies of Nature

7.Chapter Four: Leveling Modernity: Entropy in Freud and Lévi-Strauss

8.Chapter Five: Old Age and Entropic Decline

9.Chapter Six: Entropic Excess: Reconfiguring Matter and Waste

10.Chapter Seven: Destruction and the Joy of Creation

11.Conclusion

12.Bibliography

13.Author Bio

Erscheinungsdatum	21.07.2023
Reihe/Serie	Philosophical Projections
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 230 mm
Gewicht	349 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-5381-6518-X / 153816518X
ISBN-13	978-1-5381-6518-8 / 9781538165188
Zustand	Neuware