Abbreviations; Preface by Robin Durie and David Webb; Chapter One Chaos; Chaos and Complexity Theory; Nietzchean Chaos and the Superior Principle of Sufficient Reason; The Eternal Return and the Disparity of Forces; Ergodicity and Infinite Duration; Post-Classical Physics and the question of Entropy; Chapter Two Entropy and the Complete Concept in Leibniz and Deleuze; Dissymmetry, Energy Gradients and 'The Ultimate Origination of Things'; On the Uitimate Origination of Things; From Many Worlds to Chaosmos; The Calculating God; Mathematical Thought, the Problem and the Cosmos; The Compete Concept and Disjunctive Synthesis in Sufficient Reason; Physical Systems, Disparity and Disjunctive Synthesis; Chaosmos as Cosmology; Absolute Zero, Limits and the Infinite; Simple Order; Chapter Three: Order; Mechanism and Vitalism, Order and Complexity; The Game Analogy #1: Leibniz and Kant; The Game Analogy #2: Claude Shannon and Michel Serres; Game #2.1: Claude Shannon's 'A Mathematical Theory of Communication'; Game #2.2: Michel Serres' The Birth of Physics; Game #3.0: Deleuze's Ideal Game ; Chapter Four: Order as Complexity; Complexity as Principle; Limits without Negation; Chapter Five: Sufficient Reason as Dissymmetry and the Evolutionary Paradigm; Limits and Non-Locality; A Network Paradigm: Loop Quantum Gravity; A Holographic Paradigm: David Bohm's Implicate Order; Evolutionary Expansiveness; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Order and the Virtual : The Philosophy and Science of Deleuzian Cosmology