Chaos imagined literature art science meisel martin isbn 9780231166324 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. Chaos imagined literature art science the stories we tell in our attempt to make sense of the world our myths and religion literature and philosophy science and art are the comforting vehicles we use to transmit ideas of order but beneath the quest for order lies the uneasy dread of fundamental disorder. Chaos imagined literature art science english edition ebook meisel martin amazonde kindle shop wahlen sie ihre cookie einstellungen wir verwenden cookies und ahnliche tools um ihr einkaufserlebnis zu verbessern um unsere dienste anzubieten um zu verstehen wie die kunden unsere dienste nutzen damit wir verbesserungen vornehmen konnen und um werbung anzuzeigen. Meisel builds a rough history from major social psychological and cosmological turning points in the imagining of chaos he uses examples from literature philosophy painting graphic art science linguistics music and film particularly exploring the remarkable shift in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries from conceiving of chaos as disruptive to celebrating its liberating and energizing potential discussions of sophocles plato lucretius calderon milton haydn blake faraday . Chaos imagined literature art science by martin meisel is a masterful work that serves as both a history of sorts of the concept of chaos as well as detailed analyses of various texts to illustrate how perceptions were expressed and eventually changed