Death, Entropy, Creativity and Perpetual Perishing: Some Thoughts from Whitehead and Stengers
In this paper, I argue that we need to rethink how we conceive of death as “inevitable”. There are two main strands to my analysis. First, I use the work of Stengers to trace the complex and, occasionally, contradictory ways in which the concept of entropy was developed within physics in the 19th an...
Main Author: | Michael Halewood |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2015-08-01
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Series: | Social Sciences |
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Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/4/3/655 |
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