Julián Ferreyra is Professor of Philosophy in two of the more prestigious institutions of Argentina (CONICET and the University of Buenos Aires), where he works on the ontology of Deleuze and its relation with political theory and German Idealism. He is the Director of the Journal Ideas, revista de filosofía moderna y contemporánea (Ideas, journal of modern and contemporary philosophy), and leads various research groups. He has published more than 50 papers and essays in journals and books, both as author and as editor.
Dorothea E. Olkowski is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs and Director of the Cognitive Studies Minor. She is author of Gilles Deleuze and the Ruin of Representation and Resistance, Flight, Creation: Feminist Enactments of French Philosophy and editor (with Christina Sch¿es and Helen A. Fielding) of Time in Feminist Phenomenology (IUP, 2011).
Preface: Postmodern Philosophy
Acknowledgements
1. Nature Calls: Scientific Worldviews and the Sokal Hoax
2. The Natural Contract and the Archimedean World View
3. Semi-Free: Thermodynamics, Probability and the New Worldview
4. Burning Man: The Influence of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics and the Science of Flow
5. Philosophy's Extra-scientific Messages
6. Love's Ontology: Ethics Beyond the Limits of Classical Science
Notes
Bibliography
Index