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Niels Bohr's Complementarity: Its Structure, History, and Intersections with Hermeneutics and Deconstruction

Niels Bohr's Complementarity: Its Structure, History, and Intersections with Hermeneutics and Deconstruction

Katsumori, Makoto

Hardcover

Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, Book 286

PhilosophySports GeneralHistory & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 9400717474
ISBN13: 9789400717473
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Sep 1 2011
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book explores the modern physicist Niels Bohr's philosophical thought, specifically his pivotal idea of complementarity, with a focus on the relation between the roles of what he metaphorically calls spectators and actors. It seeks to spell out the structural and historical complexity of the idea of complementarity in terms of different modes of the 'spectator-actor' relation, showing, in particular, that the reorganization of Bohr's thought starting from his 1935 debate with Einstein and his collaborators is characterized by an extension of the dynamic conception of complementarity from non-physical contexts to the very field of quantum theory. Further, linked with this analysis, the book situates Bohr's complementarity in contemporary philosophical context by examining its intersections with post-Heideggerian hermeneutics as well as Derridean deconstruction. Specifically, it points to both the close affinities and the differences between Bohr's idea of the 'actor-spectator' relation and the hermeneutic notion of the relation between belonging and distanciation.

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