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Complementarity - Anti-Epistemology after Bohr and Derrida (Paperback, New) Loot Price: R1,099
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Complementarity - Anti-Epistemology after Bohr and Derrida (Paperback, New): Arkady Plotnitsky

Complementarity - Anti-Epistemology after Bohr and Derrida (Paperback, New)

Arkady Plotnitsky

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Many commentators have remarked in passing on the resonance between deconstructionist theory and certain ideas of quantum physics. In this book, Arkady Plotnitsky rigorously elaborates the similarities and differences between the two by focusing on the work of Niels Bohr and Jacques Derrida. In detailed considerations of Bohr's notion of complementarity and his debates with Einstein, and in analysis of Derrida's work via Georges Bataille's concept of general economy, Plotnitsky demonstrates the value of exploring these theories in relation to each other.
Bohr's term complementarity describes a situation, unavoidable in quantum physics, in which two theories thought to be mutually exclusive are required to explain a single phenomenon. Light, for example, can only be explained as both wave and particle, but no synthesis of the two is possible. This theoretical transformation is then examined in relation to the ways that Derrida sets his work against or outside of Hegel, also resisting a similar kind of synthesis and enacting a transformation of its own.
Though concerned primarily with Bohr and Derrida, Plotnitsky also considers a wide range of anti-epistemological endeavors including the work of Nietzsche, Bataille, and the mathematician Kurt Godel. Under the rubric of complementarity he develops a theoretical framework that raises new possiblilities for students and scholars of literary theory, philosophy, and philosophy of science.

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Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: February 1994
First published: February 1994
Authors: Arkady Plotnitsky
Dimensions: 154 x 234 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 336
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-1437-0
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
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LSN: 0-8223-1437-1
Barcode: 9780822314370

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