Textbook Discounter: Architecture: Architectures of Time: Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture

StudentUniverse.com - Travel More. Spend Less

Architectures of Time: Toward a Theory of the Event in Modernist Culture
	Author: Sanford Kwinter Publisher: The MIT Press Category: Book List Price: ~~$22.00~~ Buy New: $13.82 You Save: $8.18 (37%) New (15) Used (6) from $9.45 Rating: 1 reviews Sales Rank: 122511 Media: Paperback Pages: 251 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6 Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 ISBN: 0262611813 Dewey Decimal Number: 720 EAN: 9780262611817 ASIN: 0262611813 Publication Date: September 9, 2002 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: International shipping available Condition: Brand New, Perfect Condition, Please allow 4-14 business days for delivery. 100% Money Back Guarantee, Over 1,000,000 customers served.


Editorial Reviews: Product Description In Architectures of Time, Sanford Kwinter offers a critical guide to the modern history of time and to the interplay between the physical sciences and the arts. Tracing the transformation of twentieth-century epistemology to the rise of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, Kwinter explains how the demise of the concept of absolute time, and of the classical notion of space as a fixed background against which things occur, led to field theory and a physics of the "event." He suggests that the closed, controlled, and mechanical world of physics gave way to the approximate, active, and qualitative world of biology as a model of both scientific and metaphysical explanation. Kwinter examines theory of time and space in Einstein's theories of relativity and shows how these ideas were reflected in the writings of the sculptor Umberto Boccioni, the town planning schema of the Futurist architect Antonio Sant'Elia, the philosophy of Henri Bergson, and the writings of Franz Kafka. He argues that the writings of Boccioni and the visionary architecture of Sant'Elia represent the earliest and most profound deployments of the concepts of field and event. In discussing Kafka's work, he moves away from the thermodynamic model in favor of the closely related one of Bergsonian duree, or virtuality. He argues that Kafka's work manifests a coherent cosmology that can be understood only in relation to the constant temporal flux that underlies it.