Contemporary Physics Plays Making Time to Know Responsibility /

• Main Author: Halpin, Jenni G. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• Subjects: Theater-History.; Drama.; Performing arts.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Theatre History.; Performing Arts.; Twentieth-Century Literature.

This book analyzes recent physics plays, arguing that their enaction of concepts from the sciences they discuss alters the nature of the decisions made by the characters, changing the ethical judgements that might be cast on them. Recent physics plays regularly alter the shape of space-time itself,...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Ethics and Physics in Contemporary Plays
• 2. Playing Nuclear War: Learning Postmodern War from Modern Physics
• 3. Relativistic Intertextuality: Einstein as a Figure
• 4. What You Don't Know Is Going to Hurt Like Hell: Knowledge, Power, and the Faustian Bargain
• 5. Torn Palimpsest and Recycled Time: Copenhagen and Conclusion.