Shannon M. Mussett: Entropic Philosophy

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Beschreibung

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

Über den Autor

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).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	20. & 21. Jahrhundert
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781538165188
ISBN-10:	153816518X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Mussett, Shannon M.
Hersteller:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	Shannon M. Mussett
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.08.2023
Gewicht:	0,365 kg