Energy Dreams: Of Actuality

by Michael Marder

Book Overview

The question of energy is among the most vital for the future of humanity and the flourishing of life on this planet. Yet, only very rarely (if at all) do we ask what energy is, what it means, what ends it serves, and how it is related to actuality, meaning-making, and instrumentality. Energy Dreams interrogates the ontology of energy from the first coinage of the word energeia by Aristotle to the current practice of fracking and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231180594
• ISBN13: 9780231180597
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher