| Description |
237 pages, ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"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."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
First paperback ed. published, 2002 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Also available electronically |
| Subject |
Time.
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Time in art.
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Time in literature.
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Architecture, Modern -- 20th century.
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Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Philosophy.
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Architecture and philosophy.
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Space and time.
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Physical sciences -- Philosophy.
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Modern movement (Architecture)
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| LC no. |
00045085 |
| ISBN |
0262112604 alkaline paper |
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