Rowman & Littlefield Publishers / Rowman & Littlefield International
Pages: 220
Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-78661-246-5 • Hardback • January 2022 • $110.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-78661-247-2 • eBook • January 2022 • $38.00 • (£29.00)
Shannon Mussett is Professor of Philosophy at Utah Valley University
- 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
This beautiful book might be called Tristes Entropiques. Shannon Mussett explains how the conception of the law of entropy has disturbed our understanding of human endeavor. Instead of concluding that all is vanity, she finds bases for grace in Homer, Nietzsche, and Smithson.
— Andrew Cutrofello, Loyola University, Chicago