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040			_aTULIB _beng _cTULIB
050			_aQ172.5.C45 _bC426 2021
245	0	0	_aChaos from the ancient world to early modernity : _bformations of the formless / _cedited by Andreas Hofele ... [et al.].
260			_aBerlin : _bDe Gruyter, _cc2021.
300			_avi, 238 p. : _bill.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction / Andreas Höfele -- The Invention of Chaos / Glenn W. Most -- Zwischen Chaos und Ordnung / Stefan M. Maul -- Paradise Established / Christoph Levin -- Das umgestürzte Recht (Amos 5,7) / Reinhard Müller -- Beate Kellner Chaos in komischer Literatur des späten Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit / -- Mixed Abysses / Florian Mehltretter -- "Come to Great Confusion" / Andreas Höfele -- Sympathy Lost / Verena O. Lobsien -- The Coming Chaos in Spenser and Milton / Gordon Teskey -- The Tartarean Jurisdiction of Chaos in Milton's Paradise Lost / Björn Quiring -- Naturalization of Chaos and Apotheosis of Order / Karsten Fischer -- Index of Authers.
520			_aChaos is a perennial source of fear and fascination. The original "formless void" (tohu-wa-bohu) mentioned in the book of Genesis, chaos precedes the created world: a state of anarchy before the establishment of cosmic order. But chaos has frequently also been conceived of as a force that persists in the cosmos and in society and threatens to undo them both. From the cultures of the ancient Near East and the Old Testament to early modernity, notions of the divine have included the power to check and contain as well as to unleash chaos as a sanction for the violation of social and ethical norms. Yet chaos has also been construed as a necessary supplement to order, a region of pure potentiality at the base of reality that provides the raw material of creation or even constitutes a kind of alternative order itself. As such, it generates its own peculiar 'formations of the formless'. Focusing on the connection between the cosmic and the political, this volume traces the continuities and re-conceptualizations of chaos from the ancient Near East to early modern Europe across a variety of cultures, discourses and texts. One of the questions it poses is how these pre-modern 'chaos theories' have survived into and reverberate in our own time.
650		4	_aChaotic behavior in systems.
650		4	_aChaotic behavior in systems _xReligious aspects.
700	1		_aHofele, Andreas, _d1950-
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