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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schleifer, Ronald
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (272 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780816667802

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