Research Catalog

Title

Entropic affirmation : on the origins of conflict in change, death, and otherness / Apple Zefelius Igrek.

Author

Igrek, Apple Zefelius

Publication

• Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2018]
• ©2018

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Details

Description

xiii, 151 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"How do we conceptualize death when its very nature implies absence and nothingness? It is difficult to put into words precisely because we want our words to help us delineate the world around us, whereas the absence associated with death is the opposite of such delineation. For this reason, death might be said to represent a form of infinite otherness, something radically different from our usual, finite, anthropomorphic way of thinking about the world. With this in mind, Apple Igrek observes an unusual paradox. Some philosophers argue that we should be more open to that which is infinitely other (as with change or death) in the context of ethics, culture, and politics, while others critique this position since we cannot logically say what is more or less open to the immeasurable. It would therefore seem impossible to defend the relevance of what is infinite to ethics while nevertheless acknowledging the validity of the above-stated critique. If we want, in other words, to say that infinite otherness remains relevant to our social and ethical values, we will have a difficult time doing so unless we create a new methodological approach determining how it is possible for pure absence and alterity to play a role in the creation of those values. In this book Apple Igrek takes up the challenge of articulating this new approach explaining how something transcending our finite comprehension (as with death or never-ending change) is nonetheless essential for describing the construction of social values, especially in terms of describing their conflictual and agonistic tendencies"--Back cover.

Subjects

• Presence (Philosophy)
• Death
• Other (Philosophy)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-147) and index.

Contents

1. Thanato-Vitalism -- 2. Infinite Embodiment and Entropic Affirmation -- 3. The Catastrophic Trajectory -- 4. Expansive Singularities -- Interlude: Cybernetic Clouds -- 5. Entropic Refraction -- 6. Dolls and Death -- 7. Agonistic Pathos -- 8. Questions and Objections.

Call Number

JFE 18-9884

ISBN

• 9781498567992
• 1498567991

OCLC

1040175774

Author

Igrek, Apple Zefelius, author.

Title

Entropic affirmation : on the origins of conflict in change, death, and otherness / Apple Zefelius Igrek.

Publisher

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2018]

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-147) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-9884