Matter and motion: a brief history of kinetic materialism

"Thomas Nail traces an alternative history of ancient and modern thinkers who share a radically different understanding of the nature of matter and motion within the Euro-Western tradition. From Archaic Greek poetry and Bronze Age Minoan religion to the Roman poet Lucretius, and from German phi...

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1. Verfasser: Nail, Thomas (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2024]
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Zusammenfassung:"Thomas Nail traces an alternative history of ancient and modern thinkers who share a radically different understanding of the nature of matter and motion within the Euro-Western tradition. From Archaic Greek poetry and Bronze Age Minoan religion to the Roman poet Lucretius, and from German philosopher Karl Marx and English writer Virginia Woolf to contemporary physicists Carlo Rovelli and Karen Barad, Nail identifies a minor tradition of what he calls kinetic materialism and its three central ideas: indeterminacy, relationality and process"--
Beschreibung:x, 161 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781399525435
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