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Architectures of Time: Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture

Architectures of Time: Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture

Kwinter, Sanford

Paperback

PhilosophyGeneral ArchitectureArchitecture History

ISBN10: 0262611813
ISBN13: 9780262611817
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Aug 23 2002
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.58 Width: 6.03 Depth: 8.99
Language: English
An exploration of twentieth-century conceptions of time and their relation to artistic form.

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.

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