The Eighth Day: Social Evolution as the Self-Organization of Energy
Can human social evolution be described in terms common to other sciences, most specifically, as an energy process? The Eighth Day reflects a conviction that the human trajectory, for all its uniqueness and indeterminism, will never be satisfactorily understood until it is framed in dynamics that ar...
Gespeichert in:
| 1. Verfasser: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
| Veröffentlicht: |
Austin
University of Texas Press
[2021]
|
| Schlagworte: | |
| Online-Zugang: | FAB01 FAW01 FCO01 FHA01 FKE01 FLA01 UBG01 UPA01 Volltext |
| Zusammenfassung: | Can human social evolution be described in terms common to other sciences, most specifically, as an energy process? The Eighth Day reflects a conviction that the human trajectory, for all its uniqueness and indeterminism, will never be satisfactorily understood until it is framed in dynamics that are common to all of nature. The problem in doing this, however, lies in ourselves. The major social theories have failed to treat human social evolution as a component of broader natural processes. The Eighth Day argues that the energy process provides a basis for explaining, comparing, and measuring complex social evolution. Using traditional ecological energy flow studies as background, society is conceived as a self-organization of energy. This perspective enables Adams to analyze society in term of the natural selection of self-organizing energy forms and the trigger processes basic to it. Domestication, civilization, socioeconomic development, and the regulation of contemporary industrial nation-states serve to illustrate the approach. A principal aim is to explore the limitation that energy process imposes on human social evolution as well as to clarify the alternatives that it allows. Richly informed by contemporary anthropological historicism, sociobiology, and Marxism, The Eighth Day avoids simple reductionism and denies facile ideological categorization. Adams builds on work in nonequilibrium thermodynamics and theoretical biology and brings three decades of his own work to an analysis of human society that demands an extreme materialism in which human thought and action find a central place |
| Beschreibung: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021) |
| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (312 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780292736429 |
| DOI: | 10.7560/720602 |
Internformat
MARC
| LEADER | 00000nmm a2200000zc 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | BV047640357 | ||
| 003 | DE-604 | ||
| 005 | 20230620 | ||
| 007 | cr|uuu---uuuuu | ||
| 008 | 211215s2021 |||| o||u| ||||||eng d | ||
| 020 | |a 9780292736429 |9 978-0-292-73642-9 | ||
| 024 | 7 | |a 10.7560/720602 |2 doi | |
| 035 | |a (ZDB-23-DGG)9780292736429 | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)1289781505 | ||
| 035 | |a (DE-599)BVBBV047640357 | ||
| 040 | |a DE-604 |b ger |e rda | ||
| 041 | 0 | |a eng | |
| 049 | |a DE-1043 |a DE-1046 |a DE-858 |a DE-Aug4 |a DE-859 |a DE-860 |a DE-473 |a DE-739 | ||
| 082 | 0 | |a 573.2 |2 19eng | |
| 100 | 1 | |a Adams, Richard N. |d 1924-2018 |e Verfasser |0 (DE-588)1056426675 |4 aut | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a The Eighth Day |b Social Evolution as the Self-Organization of Energy |c Richard Newbold Adams |
| 264 | 1 | |a Austin |b University of Texas Press |c [2021] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c © 1988 | |
| 300 | |a 1 Online-Ressource (312 pages) | ||
| 336 | |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 500 | |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021) | ||
| 520 | |a Can human social evolution be described in terms common to other sciences, most specifically, as an energy process? The Eighth Day reflects a conviction that the human trajectory, for all its uniqueness and indeterminism, will never be satisfactorily understood until it is framed in dynamics that are common to all of nature. The problem in doing this, however, lies in ourselves. The major social theories have failed to treat human social evolution as a component of broader natural processes. The Eighth Day argues that the energy process provides a basis for explaining, comparing, and measuring complex social evolution. Using traditional ecological energy flow studies as background, society is conceived as a self-organization of energy. This perspective enables Adams to analyze society in term of the natural selection of self-organizing energy forms and the trigger processes basic to it. Domestication, civilization, socioeconomic development, and the regulation of contemporary industrial nation-states serve to illustrate the approach. A principal aim is to explore the limitation that energy process imposes on human social evolution as well as to clarify the alternatives that it allows. Richly informed by contemporary anthropological historicism, sociobiology, and Marxism, The Eighth Day avoids simple reductionism and denies facile ideological categorization. Adams builds on work in nonequilibrium thermodynamics and theoretical biology and brings three decades of his own work to an analysis of human society that demands an extreme materialism in which human thought and action find a central place | ||
| 546 | |a In English | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a SOCIAL SCIENCE / General |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Force and energy | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Self-organizing systems | |
| 650 | 4 | |a Social evolution | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |u https://doi.org/10.7560/720602 |x Verlag |z URL des Erstveröffentlichers |3 Volltext |
| 912 | |a ZDB-23-DGG | ||
| 999 | |a oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-033024560 | ||
| 966 | e | |u https://doi.org/10.7560/720602 |l FAB01 |p ZDB-23-DGG |q FAB_PDA_DGG |x Verlag |3 Volltext | |
| 966 | e | |u https://doi.org/10.7560/720602 |l FAW01 |p ZDB-23-DGG |q FAW_PDA_DGG |x Verlag |3 Volltext | |
| 966 | e | |u https://doi.org/10.7560/720602 |l FCO01 |p ZDB-23-DGG |q FCO_PDA_DGG |x Verlag |3 Volltext | |
| 966 | e | |u https://doi.org/10.7560/720602 |l FHA01 |p ZDB-23-DGG |q FHA_PDA_DGG |x Verlag |3 Volltext | |
| 966 | e | |u https://doi.org/10.7560/720602 |l FKE01 |p ZDB-23-DGG |q FKE_PDA_DGG |x Verlag |3 Volltext | |
| 966 | e | |u https://doi.org/10.7560/720602 |l FLA01 |p ZDB-23-DGG |q FLA_PDA_DGG |x Verlag |3 Volltext | |
| 966 | e | |u https://doi.org/10.7560/720602 |l UBG01 |p ZDB-23-DGG |q UBG_PDA_DGG |x Verlag |3 Volltext | |
| 966 | e | |u https://doi.org/10.7560/720602 |l UPA01 |p ZDB-23-DGG |q UPA_PDA_DGG |x Verlag |3 Volltext | |
Datensatz im Suchindex
| _version_ | 1804183093581447168 |
|---|---|
| adam_txt | |
| any_adam_object | |
| any_adam_object_boolean | |
| author | Adams, Richard N. 1924-2018 |
| author_GND | (DE-588)1056426675 |
| author_facet | Adams, Richard N. 1924-2018 |
| author_role | aut |
| author_sort | Adams, Richard N. 1924-2018 |
| author_variant | r n a rn rna |
| building | Verbundindex |
| bvnumber | BV047640357 |
| collection | ZDB-23-DGG |
| ctrlnum | (ZDB-23-DGG)9780292736429 (OCoLC)1289781505 (DE-599)BVBBV047640357 |
| dewey-full | 573.2 |
| dewey-hundreds | 500 - Natural sciences and mathematics |
| dewey-ones | 573 - Specific physiological systems in animals |
| dewey-raw | 573.2 |
| dewey-search | 573.2 |
| dewey-sort | 3573.2 |
| dewey-tens | 570 - Biology |
| discipline | Biologie |
| discipline_str_mv | Biologie |
| doi_str_mv | 10.7560/720602 |
| format | Electronic eBook |
| fullrecord | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><collection xmlns="http://www.loc.gov/MARC21/slim"><record><leader>03851nmm a2200505zc 4500</leader><controlfield tag="001">BV047640357</controlfield><controlfield tag="003">DE-604</controlfield><controlfield tag="005">20230620 </controlfield><controlfield tag="007">cr|uuu---uuuuu</controlfield><controlfield tag="008">211215s2021 |||| o||u| ||||||eng d</controlfield><datafield tag="020" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">9780292736429</subfield><subfield code="9">978-0-292-73642-9</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="024" ind1="7" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">10.7560/720602</subfield><subfield code="2">doi</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(ZDB-23-DGG)9780292736429</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(OCoLC)1289781505</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="035" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">(DE-599)BVBBV047640357</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="040" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-604</subfield><subfield code="b">ger</subfield><subfield code="e">rda</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="041" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">eng</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="049" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">DE-1043</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-1046</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-858</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-Aug4</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-859</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-860</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-473</subfield><subfield code="a">DE-739</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="082" ind1="0" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">573.2</subfield><subfield code="2">19eng</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="100" ind1="1" ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Adams, Richard N.</subfield><subfield code="d">1924-2018</subfield><subfield code="e">Verfasser</subfield><subfield code="0">(DE-588)1056426675</subfield><subfield code="4">aut</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="245" ind1="1" ind2="0"><subfield code="a">The Eighth Day</subfield><subfield code="b">Social Evolution as the Self-Organization of Energy</subfield><subfield code="c">Richard Newbold Adams</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="1"><subfield code="a">Austin</subfield><subfield code="b">University of Texas Press</subfield><subfield code="c">[2021]</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="264" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="c">© 1988</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="300" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">1 Online-Ressource (312 pages)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="336" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">txt</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacontent</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="337" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">c</subfield><subfield code="2">rdamedia</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="338" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="b">cr</subfield><subfield code="2">rdacarrier</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="500" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021)</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="520" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">Can human social evolution be described in terms common to other sciences, most specifically, as an energy process? The Eighth Day reflects a conviction that the human trajectory, for all its uniqueness and indeterminism, will never be satisfactorily understood until it is framed in dynamics that are common to all of nature. The problem in doing this, however, lies in ourselves. The major social theories have failed to treat human social evolution as a component of broader natural processes. The Eighth Day argues that the energy process provides a basis for explaining, comparing, and measuring complex social evolution. Using traditional ecological energy flow studies as background, society is conceived as a self-organization of energy. This perspective enables Adams to analyze society in term of the natural selection of self-organizing energy forms and the trigger processes basic to it. Domestication, civilization, socioeconomic development, and the regulation of contemporary industrial nation-states serve to illustrate the approach. A principal aim is to explore the limitation that energy process imposes on human social evolution as well as to clarify the alternatives that it allows. Richly informed by contemporary anthropological historicism, sociobiology, and Marxism, The Eighth Day avoids simple reductionism and denies facile ideological categorization. Adams builds on work in nonequilibrium thermodynamics and theoretical biology and brings three decades of his own work to an analysis of human society that demands an extreme materialism in which human thought and action find a central place</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="546" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">In English</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="7"><subfield code="a">SOCIAL SCIENCE / General</subfield><subfield code="2">bisacsh</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Force and energy</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Self-organizing systems</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="650" ind1=" " ind2="4"><subfield code="a">Social evolution</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="856" ind1="4" ind2="0"><subfield code="u">https://doi.org/10.7560/720602</subfield><subfield code="x">Verlag</subfield><subfield code="z">URL des Erstveröffentlichers</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="912" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="999" ind1=" " ind2=" "><subfield code="a">oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-033024560</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="966" ind1="e" ind2=" "><subfield code="u">https://doi.org/10.7560/720602</subfield><subfield code="l">FAB01</subfield><subfield code="p">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield><subfield code="q">FAB_PDA_DGG</subfield><subfield code="x">Verlag</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="966" ind1="e" ind2=" "><subfield code="u">https://doi.org/10.7560/720602</subfield><subfield code="l">FAW01</subfield><subfield code="p">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield><subfield code="q">FAW_PDA_DGG</subfield><subfield code="x">Verlag</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="966" ind1="e" ind2=" "><subfield code="u">https://doi.org/10.7560/720602</subfield><subfield code="l">FCO01</subfield><subfield code="p">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield><subfield code="q">FCO_PDA_DGG</subfield><subfield code="x">Verlag</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="966" ind1="e" ind2=" "><subfield code="u">https://doi.org/10.7560/720602</subfield><subfield code="l">FHA01</subfield><subfield code="p">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield><subfield code="q">FHA_PDA_DGG</subfield><subfield code="x">Verlag</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="966" ind1="e" ind2=" "><subfield code="u">https://doi.org/10.7560/720602</subfield><subfield code="l">FKE01</subfield><subfield code="p">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield><subfield code="q">FKE_PDA_DGG</subfield><subfield code="x">Verlag</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="966" ind1="e" ind2=" "><subfield code="u">https://doi.org/10.7560/720602</subfield><subfield code="l">FLA01</subfield><subfield code="p">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield><subfield code="q">FLA_PDA_DGG</subfield><subfield code="x">Verlag</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="966" ind1="e" ind2=" "><subfield code="u">https://doi.org/10.7560/720602</subfield><subfield code="l">UBG01</subfield><subfield code="p">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield><subfield code="q">UBG_PDA_DGG</subfield><subfield code="x">Verlag</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield><datafield tag="966" ind1="e" ind2=" "><subfield code="u">https://doi.org/10.7560/720602</subfield><subfield code="l">UPA01</subfield><subfield code="p">ZDB-23-DGG</subfield><subfield code="q">UPA_PDA_DGG</subfield><subfield code="x">Verlag</subfield><subfield code="3">Volltext</subfield></datafield></record></collection> |
| id | DE-604.BV047640357 |
| illustrated | Not Illustrated |
| index_date | 2024-07-03T18:47:51Z |
| indexdate | 2024-07-10T09:17:58Z |
| institution | BVB |
| isbn | 9780292736429 |
| language | English |
| oai_aleph_id | oai:aleph.bib-bvb.de:BVB01-033024560 |
| oclc_num | 1289781505 |
| open_access_boolean | |
| owner | DE-1043 DE-1046 DE-858 DE-Aug4 DE-859 DE-860 DE-473 DE-BY-UBG DE-739 |
| owner_facet | DE-1043 DE-1046 DE-858 DE-Aug4 DE-859 DE-860 DE-473 DE-BY-UBG DE-739 |
| physical | 1 Online-Ressource (312 pages) |
| psigel | ZDB-23-DGG ZDB-23-DGG FAB_PDA_DGG ZDB-23-DGG FAW_PDA_DGG ZDB-23-DGG FCO_PDA_DGG ZDB-23-DGG FHA_PDA_DGG ZDB-23-DGG FKE_PDA_DGG ZDB-23-DGG FLA_PDA_DGG ZDB-23-DGG UBG_PDA_DGG ZDB-23-DGG UPA_PDA_DGG |
| publishDate | 2021 |
| publishDateSearch | 2021 |
| publishDateSort | 2021 |
| publisher | University of Texas Press |
| record_format | marc |
| spelling | Adams, Richard N. 1924-2018 Verfasser (DE-588)1056426675 aut The Eighth Day Social Evolution as the Self-Organization of Energy Richard Newbold Adams Austin University of Texas Press [2021] © 1988 1 Online-Ressource (312 pages) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021) Can human social evolution be described in terms common to other sciences, most specifically, as an energy process? The Eighth Day reflects a conviction that the human trajectory, for all its uniqueness and indeterminism, will never be satisfactorily understood until it is framed in dynamics that are common to all of nature. The problem in doing this, however, lies in ourselves. The major social theories have failed to treat human social evolution as a component of broader natural processes. The Eighth Day argues that the energy process provides a basis for explaining, comparing, and measuring complex social evolution. Using traditional ecological energy flow studies as background, society is conceived as a self-organization of energy. This perspective enables Adams to analyze society in term of the natural selection of self-organizing energy forms and the trigger processes basic to it. Domestication, civilization, socioeconomic development, and the regulation of contemporary industrial nation-states serve to illustrate the approach. A principal aim is to explore the limitation that energy process imposes on human social evolution as well as to clarify the alternatives that it allows. Richly informed by contemporary anthropological historicism, sociobiology, and Marxism, The Eighth Day avoids simple reductionism and denies facile ideological categorization. Adams builds on work in nonequilibrium thermodynamics and theoretical biology and brings three decades of his own work to an analysis of human society that demands an extreme materialism in which human thought and action find a central place In English SOCIAL SCIENCE / General bisacsh Force and energy Self-organizing systems Social evolution https://doi.org/10.7560/720602 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Adams, Richard N. 1924-2018 The Eighth Day Social Evolution as the Self-Organization of Energy SOCIAL SCIENCE / General bisacsh Force and energy Self-organizing systems Social evolution |
| title | The Eighth Day Social Evolution as the Self-Organization of Energy |
| title_auth | The Eighth Day Social Evolution as the Self-Organization of Energy |
| title_exact_search | The Eighth Day Social Evolution as the Self-Organization of Energy |
| title_exact_search_txtP | The Eighth Day Social Evolution as the Self-Organization of Energy |
| title_full | The Eighth Day Social Evolution as the Self-Organization of Energy Richard Newbold Adams |
| title_fullStr | The Eighth Day Social Evolution as the Self-Organization of Energy Richard Newbold Adams |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Eighth Day Social Evolution as the Self-Organization of Energy Richard Newbold Adams |
| title_short | The Eighth Day |
| title_sort | the eighth day social evolution as the self organization of energy |
| title_sub | Social Evolution as the Self-Organization of Energy |
| topic | SOCIAL SCIENCE / General bisacsh Force and energy Self-organizing systems Social evolution |
| topic_facet | SOCIAL SCIENCE / General Force and energy Self-organizing systems Social evolution |
| url | https://doi.org/10.7560/720602 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT adamsrichardn theeighthdaysocialevolutionastheselforganizationofenergy |