Intangible Materialism : The Body, Scientific Knowledge, and the Power of Language /

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Taking as his point of departure Norbert Weiner's statement that information is basic to understanding materialism in our era, Ronald Schleifer shows how discoveries of modern physics have altered conceptions of matter and energy and the ways in which both information theory and the study of li...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Schleifer, Ronald
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Semiotics.
Materialism in literature.
Materialism.
Literature > Philosophy.
Literature and science.
Human body (Philosophy)
Human body in literature.
PHILOSOPHY > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Litterature et sciences.
Corps humain (Philosophie)
Corps humain dans la litterature.
Materialisme.
Materialisme dans la litterature.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Taking as his point of departure Norbert Weiner's statement that information is basic to understanding materialism in our era, Ronald Schleifer shows how discoveries of modern physics have altered conceptions of matter and energy and the ways in which both information theory and the study of literature can enrich these conceptions. Expanding the reductive notion of "the material" as simply matter and energy, he formulates a new, more inclusive idea of materialism. Schleifer's project attempts to bridge the divisions between the humanities and the sciences and to create a nonreductive materialis.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (272 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780816667802

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