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正題名/作者:
Contemporary physics plays/ by Jenni G. Halpin.
其他題名:
making time to know responsibility /
作者:
Halpin, Jenni G.
出版者:
Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2018.,
面頁冊數:
viii, 128 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:
Springer eBooks
標題:
Science fiction plays - History and criticism. -
電子資源:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75148-1
ISBN:
9783319751481
Contemporary physics plays = making time to know responsibility /
Halpin, Jenni G.
Contemporary physics plays
making time to know responsibility /[electronic resource] :by Jenni G. Halpin. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2018. - viii, 128 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine. - Palgrave studies in literature, science and medicine..
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.
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, drawing together disparate moments, reversing the flow of time, creating apparent contradictions, and iterating scenes for multiple branches of counterfactual history. With these changes both causality and responsibility shift, variously. The roles of iconic scientists, such as Albert Einstein and Werner Heisenberg, are interrogated for their dramatic value, placing history and dramatic license in tension. Cold War strategies and the limits of espionage highlight the emphatically personal involvement of ordinary individuals. This study is vital reading for those interested in physics plays and the relationship between the sciences and the humanities.
ISBN: 9783319751481
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LC Class. No.: PN1950 / .H357 2018
Dewey Class. No.: 809.23
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