Chaos Imagined : Literature, Art, Science
Martin Meisel considers the long effort to conjure, depict, and rationalize extreme disorder, with all the passions, excitements, and compromises the act has provoked. He builds a rough history from major social, psychological, and cosmological turning points in the imagining of chaos, particularly...
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| Formato: | Livre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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New York, NY :
Columbia University Press
[2016].
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| Acceso en liña: | Accès Université Orléans et IFPM |
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Mar. 30, 2016) La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de 606 p. Cyberlibris (ScholarVox) Corpus Lettres |
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| Edition sous un autre format: | • Chaos imagined, literature, art, science, Martin Meisel, 2016, New York (N.Y.), Columbia university press, 1 vol. (xvi-585 p.), 978-0-231-16632-4 |
| Résumé: | Martin Meisel considers the long effort to conjure, depict, and rationalize extreme disorder, with all the passions, excitements, and compromises the act has provoked. He builds a rough history from major social, psychological, and cosmological turning points in the imagining of chaos, particularly exploring the remarkable shift in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from conceiving of chaos as disruptive to celebrating its liberating and energizing potential |
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| descrición da copia: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Mar. 30, 2016) La pagination de l'édition imprimée correspondante est de 606 p. Cyberlibris (ScholarVox) Corpus Lettres |
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| ISBN: | 9780231540469 (ISBN identique à l'ISBN de l'imprimé) |
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