Chaos imagined : literature, art, science / Martin Meisel.

Author
Meisel, Martin [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 585 pages) : illustrations

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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.
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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
ISBN
  • 9780231540469 ((electronic bk.))
  • 0231540469 ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
936117829
Doi
  • 10.7312/meis16632
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