TY - BOOK ID - 79312306 TI - Chaos Imagined : Literature, Art, Science PY - 2016 SN - 9780231166324 9780231540469 0231540469 023116632X PB - New York, NY : Columbia University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Philosophy of science KW - Sociology KW - Art KW - Literature KW - History of civilization KW - Literature and society. KW - Chaotic behavior in system KW - Arts and society. KW - Social change. KW - Chaotic behavior in systems in literature. KW - Literature and science. KW - Entropy in literature. KW - Poetry and science KW - Science and literature KW - Science and poetry KW - Science and the humanities KW - Change, Social KW - Cultural change KW - Cultural transformation KW - Societal change KW - Socio-cultural change KW - Social history KW - Social evolution KW - Arts KW - Arts and sociology KW - Society and the arts KW - Sociology and the arts KW - Literature and sociology KW - Society and literature KW - Sociology and literature KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Social aspects. KW - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:79312306 AB - The stories we tell in our attempt to make sense of the world—our myths and religion, literature and philosophy, science and art—are the comforting vehicles we use to transmit ideas of order. But beneath the quest for order lies the uneasy dread of fundamental disorder. True chaos is hard to imagine and even harder to represent. In this book, Martin Meisel considers the long effort to conjure, depict, and rationalize extreme disorder, with all the passion, excitement, and compromises the act provokes.Meisel builds a rough history from major social, psychological, and cosmological turning points in the imagining of chaos. He uses examples from literature, philosophy, painting, graphic art, science, linguistics, music, and film, particularly exploring the remarkable shift in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from conceiving of chaos as disruptive to celebrating its liberating and energizing potential. Discussions of Sophocles, Plato, Lucretius, Calderon, Milton, Haydn, Blake, Faraday, Chekhov, Faulkner, Wells, and Beckett, among others, are matched with incisive readings of art by Brueghel, Rubens, Goya, Turner, Dix, Dada, and the futurists. Meisel addresses the revolution in mapping energy and entropy and the manifold effect of thermodynamics. He then uses this chaotic frame to elaborate on purpose, mortality, meaning, and mind. ER -