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Chaos imagined : literature, art, science / Martin Meisel.
Author
Meisel, Martin
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 585 pages) : illustrations
Availability
Available Online
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Subject(s)
Literature and society
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Chaotic behavior in systems
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Social aspects
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Arts and society
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Social change
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Chaotic behavior in systems in literature
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Literature and science
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Entropy in literature
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Summary note
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 exploring the remarkable shift in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from conceiving of chaos as disruptive to celebrating its liberating and energizing potential.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of description
Print version record.
Contents
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.
Frontmatter
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Ω. Uncertainty and Complexity: An Untethered Epilogue
3. Number: The One and The Many
8. Coda, Or Da Capo Al Fine
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ISBN
9780231540469 ((electronic bk.))
0231540469 ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
936117829
Doi
10.7312/meis16632
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