Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture
Edición de la obra Architectures of Time
| Autor | Sanford Kwinter |
|---|---|
| Editorial | The MIT Press |
| Fecha de publicación | June 1, 2001 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 251 |
| Formato | Hardcover |
| ISBN-13 | 9780262112604 |
| ISBN-10 | 0262112604 |
| OCLC | 44969557 |
| LCCN | 00045085 |
| Número de Cutter | K98a |
"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.