Architectures of time : toward a theory of the event in modernist culture / Sanford Kwinter.
Architectures of time : toward a theory of the event in modernist culture / Sanford Kwinter.
Architectures of time : toward a theory of the event in modernist culture / Sanford Kwinter.
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Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2001.
Date
2001.
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N724.6/16
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English
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x, 237 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents
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.
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Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 2001.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2001.
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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 o...
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Architectures of time : toward a theory of the event in modernist culture / Sanford Kwinter.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N724.6/16
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74VvQp3zMNdg
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0262611813
9780262112604 (alk. paper)
0262112604 (alk. paper)
9780262611817
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700.105
724.6
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991014407419702626
