Architectures of Time : Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture
  • critical theory
  • cloth boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white
  • 23.5 x 16 cm.
  • 237 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0262112604

Architectures of Time : Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture

Sanford Kwinter

Architectures of Time : Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture

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"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." -- publisher's statement.

Boston, MA: MIT Press,
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