Man's Rage for Chaos: Biology, Behavior & the Arts by Morse Peckham 1976 SC
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Man's Rage for Chaos: Biology, Behavior & the Arts by Morse Peckham 1976 Softcover Edition
The techniques of poetry, music, painting, and architecture are carefully and lucidly analyzed to demonstrate how precisely those techniques violate the profound demand of the mind for order. Order is man's freedom; but the rage for order creates its own limits on that freedom. Art, the author maintains, enables man to fight that rage, which destroys what it would create. Only the rage for chaos can balance the rage for order.
Cultural criticism has been too obsessed with the rage for order to be able to grasp the import of Peckham's search for "some human activity, which serves to break up orientations, to weaken and frustrate the tyrannous drive to order, to prepare the individual to observe what the orientation tells him is irrelevant, but what may every be relevant."
Rare, Out-of-Print Vintage Softcover / Schocken Books / 1976, 4th Printing / Very Good Condition
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