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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b12259945.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 237 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0262112604 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0262611813 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, MA : MIT Press,".
- catalog subject "724/.6 21".
- catalog subject "Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Modern movement (Architecture)".
- catalog subject "NA682.M63 K89 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Architectures of time : toward a theory of the event in modernist culture / Sanford Kwinter.".
- catalog type "text".