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

by Ronald Schleifer

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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 literature can enrich these conceptions. Expanding the reductive notion of "the material" as simply matter and energy, he formulates a new, more inclusive idea...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0816644675

ISBN13:9780816644674

Release Date:July 2009

Publisher:University of Minnesota Press

Length:272 Pages

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Philosophy Science Science & Math Science & Scientists Science & Technology

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