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Intangible materialism : the body, scientific knowledge, and the power of language /
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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2009.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxv, 243 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780816667802 0816667802 0816644675 9780816644674 0816644683 9780816644681 |