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A Blessed Rage for Order: Deconstruction, Evolution, and Chaos

by Alexander J. Argyros
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780472750085
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: University of Michigan Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Michigan Press
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  • Pages: 378
  • Original Price: USD 45.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Reprint
  • Item Weight: 554 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): History & Surveys / General

Recent developments in a range of disciplines, from high-energy physics to biogenetic anthropology, suggest a stunningly beautiful model of the cosmos. In A Blessed Rage for Order, Alexander Argyros explores the implications these discoveries might hold for literary criticism, for art, and, more broadly, for our understanding of the place of human culture in cosmic evolution.Argyros challenges deconstructionist paradigms, basing his own model largely on developing chaos theory, in combination with J. T. Graser's theory of evolution. He argues that the kind of dualism that postulates an unbreachable gap between human culture and prehuman nature must be replaced by a view of the universe as a communicative, dynamic, and evolving system: a model that allows the natural and cultural worlds to exist in an endlessly innovative continuum. Argyros presents a strong argument that although socio-institutional contexts play a large role in defining and constituting the world of human beings, other contexts must also be taken into account.The study draws on the work of E. O. Wilson, Douglas Hofstadter, Ilya Prigogine, and Karl Popper, among others, in proposing a new, interdisciplinary chaotic paradigm that Argyros believes can reaffirm such concepts as universality, identity, meaning, truth, and beauty.

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