Architectures of Time
Sanford Kwinter · 2002
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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."--Jacket.
Book details
- Year
- 2002
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Editions
- 4
- Pages
- 251
- ISBN
- 9780262611817
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