Architectures of Time

Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture

Sanford Kwinter (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

251 Seiten

2001
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-11260-4 (ISBN)

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In this text, 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 20th-century epistemology to the rise of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, Kwinter explains how the demise of the concept of absolute time, and of the classical notion of space as a fixed background against which things occur, led to field theory and a physics of the "event." He suggests that the closed, controlled, and mechanical world of physics gave way to the approximate, active, and qualitative world of biology as a model of both scientific and metaphysical explanation. Kwinter examines theory of time and space in Einstein's theories of relativity and shows how these ideas were reflected in the writings of the sculptor Umberto Boccioni, the town planning schema of the Futurist architect Antonio Sant'Elia, the philosophy of Henri Bergson, and the writings of Franz Kafka. He argues that the writings of Boccioni and the visionary architecture of Sant'Elia represent the earliest and most profound deployments of the concepts of field and event.
In discussing Kafka's work, he moves away from the thermodynamic model in favor of the closely related one of Bergsonian dur e, or virtuality. He argues that Kafka's work manifests a coherent cosmology that can be understood only in relation to the constant temporal flux that underlies it.

Sanford Kwinter is Associate Professor in the School of Architecture, Rice University.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.8.2001
Zusatzinfo	31
Verlagsort	Cambridge, Mass.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	540 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	0-262-11260-4 / 0262112604
ISBN-13	978-0-262-11260-4 / 9780262112604
Zustand	Neuware