Research Catalog
An excursion through chaos : disorder under the heavens
- Title
- An excursion through chaos : disorder under the heavens / Stuart Walton.
- Author
- Walton, Stuart
- Publication
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
- ©2021
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 21-2357 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- ix, 263 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "In this incisive study, Walton argues that many great social, political, artistic and philosophical advances have emerged from periods of disorder and the refusal to think within standard paradigms. Whilst, Walton claims, we have been taught to prefer the imposition of rules in all aspects of our lives, this book explores how these strictures are responsible for the alienation that has characterised post-war society, an alienation that could have been avoided if we had simply accepted the chaos. Calling us to embrace chaos, this is a philosophical consideration of the meanings and value placed upon chaos throughout history and thought"--
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFD 21-2357
- ISBN
- 9781350144095
- 1350144096
- 9781350144088
- 1350144088
- LCCN
- 2020039309
- 40030447380
- OCLC
- 1176509152
- Author
- Walton, Stuart, author.
- Title
- An excursion through chaos : disorder under the heavens / Stuart Walton.
- Publisher
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Walton, Stuart, An excursion through chaos New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 9781350144101 (DLC) 2020039310
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40030447380
- Research Call Number
- JFD 21-2357