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 thoughtas 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 formsfrom 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 EinsteinEuripides Søren Kierkegaard Isaac Newton ReinholdNiebuhr Blaise Pascal Plato Jean-Paul SartreFriedrich Schleiermacher Sophocles Max StirnerMiguel de Unamuno Alfred North Whitehead and manymore.