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Stuart Walton

An Excursion through Chaos

Disorder under the Heavens

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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… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-350-14411-8
  • EAN: 9781350144118
  • Produktnummer: 35396393
  • Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 280 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 731 KB

Über den Autor


Stuart Walton is a writer on cultural history and philosophy. He has written Out Of It: A Cultural History of Intoxication (2001) and Humanity: An Emotional History (2004), which has been translated into seven languages. He is also a features and comment journalist, writing for the Guardian books blog, and he reviews books for a number of specialist and general titles.

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