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An Excursion through Chaos - Disorder under the Heavens (Paperback)
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An Excursion through Chaos - Disorder under the Heavens (Paperback)
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From its original meaning as a gaping void, or the emptiness that
precedes the whole of creation, chaos has taken on the exclusive
meaning of confusion, pandemonium and mayhem. This definition has
become the overarching word to describe any challenge to the
established order; be it railway strikes or political dissent, any
unexpected event is routinely described in the media and popular
parlance as 'chaos'. In his incisive new study, Stuart Walton
argues that this is a pitifully one-dimensional view of the world,
as he looks to many of the great social, political, artistic and
philosophical advances that have emerged from periods of disorder
and from the refusal to think within the standard paradigms.
Exploring this worldview, Walton contends that we are superstitious
about states of affairs in which anything could happen because we
have been taught to prefer the imposition of rules in every aspect
of our lives, from our diets to our romances. Indeed, in An
Excursion through Chaos he demonstrates how it is these very
restrictions that are responsible for the alienation that has
characterised postwar society, a state of disengagement that could
have been avoided if we had taken a less fearful attitude towards
the unravelling of order.
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