Archive for December, 2014
- Who’s makin’ a list? on December 24, 2014
From nature's asymmetry to the ethics of liberal democracy, by Paul Cornell du Houx
Now in print, available most everywhere
A book of environmental and climate justice: Nature’s moral compass by the River of Asymmetry. Yoganomics summarizes the author’s book Unicycle’s breakout from Hume’s conundrum and the naturalistic fallacy, step by step, in the style of the sutras for deductive clarity. A solution to the famous “hard problem” of the relationship between nature and consciousness, mind and body, is presented using the logic of asymmetric change, where the body of the economy needs to breathe in a healthy, rhythmic polarity. A congestive monoculture must be liberated with the understanding that nature is fundamentally inclusive, as the River of Asymmetry runs through it. (In color inside and out, with art.)
Unicycle, the new 6x9 edition
The observation that nature is asymmetric allows us to introduce reasoning that is as organized as the logic of symmetries currently in use, by using symmetry as a foil in a proof by contradiction.
One result is the discovery that nature, the universe, does indeed have a non-random sense of direction with fortunate ethical consequences and implications for political science and other fields of inquiry.
“Very scrupulously set out. It is extremely well written and beautifully literate.” -Dr. Diané Collinson, author of Plain English, Fifty Major Philosophers, Fifty Eastern Thinkers, coauthor of works including the Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers
“This book contains some serious mathematics – smart, thought-provoking, and engrossing.” -William H. Barker, PhD, Isaac Henry Wing Professor of Mathematics, Bowdoin College, coauthor of the textbook Continuous Symmetry: From Euclid to Klein
Now in print, available most everywhere
“Plot is hardly the concern of this rich, dense, playful novel of philosophical, historical, and metaphysical inquiry. In Paul Cornell du Houx’s book, scientists, lovers, actors, and Pagan gods face the consequences of a new invention that reveals the polarity of sex uniting all the universe’s particles and upends all post-Pagan theology. The material is fascinating, but the novel offers a series of erotic setpieces, extended monologues, comic colloquies, and even extended comic erotic colloquies, all set in existence itself’s jumbled slipstream of connections, rather than conventional narrative… The novel’s chief attraction is Cornell du Houx’s witty, daring, allusive prose… Imaginative vigor pulses through descriptive scenes…” —The BookLife Prize
