Contemporary Physics Plays Making Time to Know Responsibility /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Halpin, Jenni G. (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine
• Θέματα: 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,...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.