Maximum Power and its Philosophical Roots: The Critical Importance Today of the Ideas of Howard Odum and Friedrich Nietzsche

Maximum Power and its Philosophical Roots: The Critical Importance Today of the Ideas of Howard Odum and Friedrich Nietzsche, 1, 2025 is a comprehensive biology reference published by Springer. Description By Timothy McWhirter This Briefs volume focuses on the maximum power principle, which was created by the mathematician and physical chemist Alfred Lotka, and further developed and utilized most prominently by the systems ecologist H.

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- This Briefs volume focuses on the maximum power principle, which was created by the mathematician and physical chemist Alfred Lotka, and further developed and utilized most…
- Odum, who applied it to different physical, biological, ecological and economic systems
- They both described this principle providing a thermodynamic framework for evolutionary theory
- This principle has a philosophical heritage that has, until now, gone unrecognized
- The 19th century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche viewed his concept of the will to power as an empirical principle that describes how organic and inorganic systems develop in ways…
- This book describes this interdisciplinary story: it discusses the development of both principles, reviews the empirical and theoretical support for them, critically examines…
- Publisher ‏ : ‎ Springer (February 11, 2025)

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Publisher: Springer
Edition: 1
Published Year: 2025
Format: Publisher PDF
File Size: 2.4 MB
ISBN: 978-3031806216, 9783031806223