| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 524 pages) : illustrations |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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| Contents |
pt. 1. Entangled beginnings. Introduction : the science and ethics of mattering ; Meeting the universe halfway ; Diffractions : differences, contingencies, and entanglements that matter -- pt. 2. Intra-actions matter. Niels Bohr's philosophy-physics : quantum physics and the nature of knowledge and reality ; Agential realism : how material-discursive practices matter -- pt. 3. Entanglements and re(con)figurations. Getting real : technoscientific practices and the materialization of reality ; Spacetime re(con)figurings : naturalcultural forces and changing topologies of power ; Quantum entanglements : experimental metaphysics and the nature of nature ; The ontology of knowing, the intra-activity of becoming, and the ethics of mattering -- Appendix A. Cascade experiment / by Alice Fulton -- Appendix B. The uncertainty principle is not the basis of Bohr's complementarity -- Appendix C. Controversy concerning the relationship between Bohr's principle of complementarity and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle |
| Summary |
"Meeting the Universe Halfway is an ambitious book with far-reaching implications for numerous fields in the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. In this volume, Karen Barad, theoretical physicist and feminist theorist, elaborates her theory of agential realism. Offering an account of the world as a whole rather than as composed of separate natural and social realms, agential realism is at once a new epistemology, ontology, and ethics. The starting point for Barad's analysis is the philosophical framework of quantum physicist Niels Bohr. Barad extends and partially revises Bohr's philosophical views in light of current scholarship in physics, science studies, and the philosophy of science as well as feminist, poststructuralist, and other critical social theories. In the process, she significantly reworks understandings of space, time, matter, causality, agency, subjectivity, and objectivity."--Publisher's description |
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A theoretical physicist and feminist theorist, Karen Barad elaborates her theory of agential realism, a schema that is at once a new epistemology, ontology, and ethics |
| Analysis |
UmU kursbok |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-489) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Physics -- Philosophy.
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Quantum theory -- Philosophy
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Heisenberg uncertainty principle -- Philosophy
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Realism -- Philosophy
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Relativity (Physics) -- Philosophy
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Matter -- Philosophy
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SCIENCE -- Energy.
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SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General.
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- General.
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Matter -- Philosophy
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Physics -- Philosophy
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Quantum theory -- Philosophy
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Relativity (Physics) -- Philosophy
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Philosophie
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Physik
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33.23 quantum physics.
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Matter.
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Quantum physics.
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Epistemology.
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Meaning.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2006027826 |
| ISBN |
9780822388128 |
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082238812X |
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1283022389 |
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9781283022385 |
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9786613022387 |
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6613022381 |
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