Chaos imagined : literature, art, science /
Martin Meisel considers the long effort to conjure, depict, and rationalize extreme disorder, with all the passions, excitements, and compromises the act has provoked. He builds a rough history from major social, psychological, and cosmological turning points in the imagining of chaos, particularly...
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New York :
Columbia University Press
[2016]
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| Linkit: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/meis16632 |
Sisällysluettelo:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- ?. Uncertainty and Complexity: An Untethered Epilogue
- 1. Shaping Chaos
- 2. Nothing and Something
- 3. Number: The One and the Many
- 4. Carnival
- 5. War
- Representation
- Condition
- Consummation
- 6. Energy
- Matter in Motion (Inertia, Friction, Noise)
- Energy Unbound
- 7. Entropy
- Time and Tide
- Tristes Entropics
- Anarchy and Endgame
- 8. Coda, or Da capo al fine
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.