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Informationen zum Autor Dorion Sagan is a writer, editor, and theorist. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of numerous books, including Lynn Margulis: The Life of and Legacy of a Scientific Rebel and Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life. Klappentext Refreshingly nonconformist and polemically incisive, Cosmic Apprentice challenges readers to reject both dogma and cliché and instead recover the intellectual adventurousness that should—and can once again—animate both science and philosophy. Informed by a countercultural sensibility, a deep engagement with speculative thought, and a hardheaded scientific skepticism, it advances controversial positions on such seemingly sacrosanct subjects as evolution and entropy. Zusammenfassung Refreshingly nonconformist and polemically incisive! Cosmic Apprentice challenges readers to reject both dogma and cliche and instead recover the intellectual adventurousness that should--and can once again--animate both science and philosophy. Informed by a countercultural sensibility! a deep engagement with speculative thought! and a hardheaded scientific skepticism! it advances controversial positions on such seemingly sacrosanct subjects as evolution and entropy. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsIntroduction: Condensed—The Questing SpiritPart I. From Protozoan to the Posthuman1. The Human Is More Than Human: Interspecies Communities and the New Facts of Life 2. Bataille’s Sun and the Ethical Abyss: Late-Night Thoughts on the Problem of an Affirmative Biopolitics3. The Post-Man Already Always Rings TwicePart II. Stardust Memories4. Stardust Memories 5. A Quick History of Sex6. Who Is I?7. Of Whales and Aliens: The Search for Intelligent Life on EarthPart III. Gaia Sings the Blues8. Thermosemiosis: Boltzmann’s Sleight, Trim’s Hat, and the Confusion concerning Entropy9. Life Gave Earth the Blues10. MousetrapPart IV. Closing the Open Circuit11. Priests of the Modern Age: Scientific Revolutions and the Kook–Critic Continuum, Being a Play of Crackpots, Skeptics, Conformists, and the Curious12. Metametazoa13. Kermitronics14. On Doyle on DrugsConclusion: Floating into Spinoza’s OceanAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex...
