Entropic Philosophy - Chaos, Breakdown, and Creation

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

List of contents

1. Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

Chapter One: Entropy in Science and Metaphor

Chapter Two: Entropy in Ancient Greek Thought

Chapter Three: Entropy in German Philosophies of Nature

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

Chapter Five: Old Age and Entropic Decline

Chapter Six: Entropic Excess: Reconfiguring Matter and Waste

Chapter Seven: Destruction and the Joy of Creation

Conclusion

Bibliography

Author Bio

About the author

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).

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Shannon M. Mussett, Mussett Shannon M., Mussett Shannon M. Mussett
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781538165188
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-6518-8
• No. of pages: 220
• Series: Philosophical Projections
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800