The Biologist's Mistress: Rethinking Self-Organization in Art, Literature, and Nature
Alexander "has refined a fresh and roundabout style of exposition building to a strong and coherent argument. With winningly explicit self-awareness and seasoned conviction conveyed in a lively conversational tone, she has come out swinging at  'postmodernist' idols of both the intellectual and the artistic marketplace. Her thesis, original and entirely stimulating, is that the modern evacuation of teleology--the loss of a ... secular notion of purposiveness in both nature and art--has led to an impoverished postmodern sensibility..." -Bruce Clarke,Configurations