Chaosmos: Literature, Science, and Theory (Suny Series, Youth Social Services, Schooling, & Public Policy)
By Philip Kuberski.
Description
This book shows how writers like James Joyce, James Merrill, and Doris Lessing; scientists like Gregory Bateson, Ilya Prigogine, and David Bohm; and theorists like Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, and Michel Serres forecasted and initiated a shift away from modernist conceptions of the world as a machine; the self as an isolated, enclosed principle, and representation as a reductive survey of the world and the self. The focus of this book is the chaosmos (a Joycean coinage) apparent within the atom and also within analogous nuclear sites such as the self, the word, the organism, and the worl...
ISBN(s)
0791419134, 9780791419137
