This book focuses on the tensions between processes of
consciousness and their products like worldviews, theories, models
of thought etc. Staying close to their technical meanings in chaos
and catastrophe theory, chaotic processes are described in mainly
neurobiological and evolutionary terms while products are
delineated in their evolutionary logic. Given both a relative
opacity of processes of the mind and of the outside world, the
dramatic quality of the processes, a certain closeness to
'hysterical' and 'schizophrenic' tendencies and, within the context
of the weakening orientating power of worldviews, an alarming
catastrophic potential emerge. As a consequence, the book aims at a
comparative cost-benefit analysis of the transitionality between
'chaotic' processes of consciousness and the often 'catastrophic'
implications of their products within historical frameworks. The
central thesis consists in the increasing failure in the
orientation of action which cannot be contained by systems of
ethics. Materials for this analysis are mainly drawn from texts
normally called literary in which the tension between biographical
and historical dimensions provides profiles of chaos and
catastrophe.
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