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This book explores the modern physicist Niels Bohr's
philosophical thought, specifically his pivotal idea of
complementarity, with a focus on the relation between the roles of
what he metaphorically calls "spectators" and "actors." It seeks to
spell out the structural and historical complexity of the idea of
complementarity in terms of different modes of the
'spectator-actor' relation, showing, in particular, that the
reorganization of Bohr's thought starting from his 1935 debate with
Einstein and his collaborators is characterized by an extension of
the dynamic conception of complementarity from non-physical
contexts to the very field of quantum theory. Further, linked with
this analysis, the book situates Bohr's complementarity in
contemporary philosophical context by examining its intersections
with post-Heideggerian hermeneutics as well as Derridean
deconstruction. Specifically, it points to both the close
affinities and the differences between Bohr's idea of the
'actor-spectator' relation and the hermeneutic notion of the
relation between "belonging" and "distanciation."
This book explores the modern physicist Niels Bohr's philosophical
thought, specifically his pivotal idea of complementarity, with a
focus on the relation between the roles of what he metaphorically
calls "spectators" and "actors." It seeks to spell out the
structural and historical complexity of the idea of complementarity
in terms of different modes of the 'spectator-actor' relation,
showing, in particular, that the reorganization of Bohr's thought
starting from his 1935 debate with Einstein and his collaborators
is characterized by an extension of the dynamic conception of
complementarity from non-physical contexts to the very field of
quantum theory. Further, linked with this analysis, the book
situates Bohr's complementarity in contemporary philosophical
context by examining its intersections with post-Heideggerian
hermeneutics as well as Derridean deconstruction. Specifically, it
points to both the close affinities and the differences between
Bohr's idea of the 'actor-spectator' relation and the hermeneutic
notion of the relation between "belonging" and "distanciation."
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