UID:
edoccha_9958112751802883
Format:
1 online resource (x, 237 p. )
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ill. ;
ISBN:
0-262-27779-4
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0-585-43764-5
Content:
"In Architectures of Time, Sanford Kwinter offers a critical guide to the modern history of time and to the interplay between the physical sciences and the arts. Tracing the transformation of twentieth-century epistemology to the rise of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, Kwinter explains how the demise of the concept of absolute time, and of the classical notion of space as a fixed background against which things occur, led to field theory and a physics of the "event." He suggests that the closed, controlled, and mechanical world of physics gave way to the approximate, active, and qualitative world of biology as a model of both scientific and metaphysical explanation."--Jacket.
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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1. The Complex and the Singular -- 2. Modernist Space and the Fragment -- 3. Physical Theory and Modernity: Einstein, Boccioni, Sant'Elia -- 4. Real Virtuality, or "the Kafkaesque" -- 5. Kafkan Immanence -- 6. Conclusion.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-262-61181-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-262-11260-4
Language:
English
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