Cosmos, Chaos, and Process in Western Thought

"Cosmos, Chaos, and Process" is a comprehensivehistory and normative analysis of the tension betweenthe ideas of order and disorder in Western thought,as this has taken shape in philosophy, religion, andscience. Chapters with titles like "Cosmos as TrueMyth," "God and the Speed of Light," and "2+2 Is NotFour" offer a survey of process philosophy (andanti-process philosophy) in all its various forms,from the pre-Socratics to Superstring Theory. Indoing so, the author seeks to formulate anexistential and humanistic social ethic in thetradition of Albert Camus and Karl Jaspers. Otherthinkers examined in depth include Aristotle, HenriBergson, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Albert Einstein,Euripides, Søren Kierkegaard, Isaac Newton, ReinholdNiebuhr, Blaise Pascal, Plato, Jean-Paul Sartre,Friedrich Schleiermacher, Sophocles, Max Stirner,Miguel de Unamuno, Alfred North Whitehead, and manymore.