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The Eighth Day - Social Evolution as the Self-Organization of Energy (Paperback)
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Can human social evolution be described in terms common to other
sciences, most specifically, as an energy process? The Eighth Day
reflects a conviction that the human trajectory, for all its
uniqueness and indeterminism, will never be satisfactorily
understood until it is framed in dynamics that are common to all of
nature. The problem in doing this, however, lies in ourselves. The
major social theories have failed to treat human social evolution
as a component of broader natural processes. The Eighth Day argues
that the energy process provides a basis for explaining, comparing,
and measuring complex social evolution. Using traditional
ecological energy flow studies as background, society is conceived
as a self-organization of energy. This perspective enables Adams to
analyze society in term of the natural selection of self-organizing
energy forms and the trigger processes basic to it. Domestication,
civilization, socioeconomic development, and the regulation of
contemporary industrial nation-states serve to illustrate the
approach. A principal aim is to explore the limitation that energy
process imposes on human social evolution as well as to clarify the
alternatives that it allows. Richly informed by contemporary
anthropological historicism, sociobiology, and Marxism, The Eighth
Day avoids simple reductionism and denies facile ideological
categorization. Adams builds on work in nonequilibrium
thermodynamics and theoretical biology and brings three decades of
his own work to an analysis of human society that demands an
extreme materialism in which human thought and action find a
central place.
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