Order and the Virtual: The Philosophy and Science of Deleuzian Cosmology

by Bill Ross

Bill Ross demonstrates the relation between Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of difference and the conceptual foundations of contemporary physics through careful engagements with the theory of relativity, quantum physics and chaos and complexity theory. Ross shows that recent work in cosmology by figures such as Lee Smolin and David Bohm calls into question the assumption that the laws of physics are universal and unchanging, a view that Deleuze anticipates...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399527355
• ISBN13: 9781399527354
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"