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Giorgio Agamben What Is Real? (Paperback) Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics

Description: Further DetailsTitle: What Is Real?Condition: NewISBN-10: 150360621XEAN: 9781503606210ISBN: 9781503606210Publisher: Stanford University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 11/13/2018Description: Eighty years ago, Ettore Majorana, a brilliant student of Enrico Fermi, disappeared under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo to Naples. How is it possible that the most talented physicist of his generation vanished without leaving a trace? It has long been speculated that Majorana decided to abandon physics, disappearing because he had precociously realized that nuclear fission would inevitably lead to the atomic bomb. This book advances a different hypothesis. Through a careful analysis of Majorana's article "The Value of Statistical Laws in Physics and Social Sciences," which shows how in quantum physics reality is dissolved into probability, and in dialogue with Simone Weil's considerations on the topic, Giorgio Agamben suggests that, by disappearing into thin air, Majorana turned his very person into an exemplary cipher of the status of the real in our probabilistic universe. In so doing, the physicist posed a question to science that is still awaiting an answer: What is Real? Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 178mmItem Length: 114mmAuthor: Giorgio AgambenTranslator: Lorenzo ChiesaContributor: Lorenzo Chiesa (Translated by)Genre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: Meridian: Crossing AestheticsTopic: Science Nature & MathRelease Year: 2018 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Book Title: What Is Real?

Title: What Is Real?

ISBN-10: 150360621X

EAN: 9781503606210

ISBN: 9781503606210

Release Date: 11/13/2018

Release Year: 2018

Country/Region of Manufacture: US

Translator: Lorenzo Chiesa

Contributor: Lorenzo Chiesa (Translated by)

Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality

Topic: Science Nature & Math

Number of Pages: 88 Pages

Publication Name: What Is Real?

Language: English

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Subject: Physics / Quantum Theory, Epistemology, Physics / Nuclear

Item Height: 0.6 in

Publication Year: 2018

Item Weight: 23.5 Oz

Type: Textbook

Subject Area: Philosophy, Science

Item Length: 7 in

Author: Giorgio Agamben

Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics Ser.

Item Width: 4.5 in

Format: Trade Paperback

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