Refreshingly nonconformist and polemically incisive, Cosmic Apprentice challenges readers to reject both dogma and cliché and instead recover the intellectual adventurousness that should—and can once again—animate both science and philosophy. Informed by a countercultural sensibility, a deep engagement with speculative thought, and a hardheaded scientific skepticism, it advances controversial positions on such seemingly sacrosanct subjects as evolution and entropy.
Refreshingly nonconformist and polemically incisive, Cosmic Apprentice challenges readers to reject both dogma and cliché and instead recover the intellectual adventurousness that should—and can once again—animate both science and philosophy. Informed by a countercultural sensibility, a deep engagement with speculative thought, and a hardheaded scientific skepticism, it advances controversial positions on such seemingly sacrosanct subjects as evolution and entropy.
Dorion Sagan is a writer, editor, and theorist. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of numerous books, including Lynn Margulis: The Life of and Legacy of a Scientific Rebel and Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics, and Life.
Inhaltsangabe
Contents Introduction: Condensed—The Questing Spirit Part I. From Protozoan to the Posthuman 1. The Human Is More Than Human: Interspecies Communities and the New Facts of Life 2. Bataille’s Sun and the Ethical Abyss: Late-Night Thoughts on the Problem of an Affirmative Biopolitics 3. The Post-Man Already Always Rings Twice Part II. Stardust Memories 4. Stardust Memories 5. A Quick History of Sex 6. Who Is I? 7. Of Whales and Aliens: The Search for Intelligent Life on Earth Part III. Gaia Sings the Blues 8. Thermosemiosis: Boltzmann’s Sleight, Trim’s Hat, and the Confusion concerning Entropy 9. Life Gave Earth the Blues 10. Mousetrap Part IV. Closing the Open Circuit 11. Priests of the Modern Age: Scientific Revolutions and the Kook–Critic Continuum, Being a Play of Crackpots, Skeptics, Conformists, and the Curious 12. Metametazoa 13. Kermitronics 14. On Doyle on Drugs Conclusion: Floating into Spinoza’s Ocean Acknowledgments Notes Index
Contents Introduction: Condensed—The Questing Spirit Part I. From Protozoan to the Posthuman 1. The Human Is More Than Human: Interspecies Communities and the New Facts of Life 2. Bataille’s Sun and the Ethical Abyss: Late-Night Thoughts on the Problem of an Affirmative Biopolitics 3. The Post-Man Already Always Rings Twice Part II. Stardust Memories 4. Stardust Memories 5. A Quick History of Sex 6. Who Is I? 7. Of Whales and Aliens: The Search for Intelligent Life on Earth Part III. Gaia Sings the Blues 8. Thermosemiosis: Boltzmann’s Sleight, Trim’s Hat, and the Confusion concerning Entropy 9. Life Gave Earth the Blues 10. Mousetrap Part IV. Closing the Open Circuit 11. Priests of the Modern Age: Scientific Revolutions and the Kook–Critic Continuum, Being a Play of Crackpots, Skeptics, Conformists, and the Curious 12. Metametazoa 13. Kermitronics 14. On Doyle on Drugs Conclusion: Floating into Spinoza’s Ocean Acknowledgments Notes Index
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