What Is Real? by Giorgio Agamben
Eighty years ago, Ettore Majorana, a brilliant student of Enrico Fermi, disappeared under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo to Naples. How is it possible that the most talented physicist of his generation vanished without leaving a trace? It has long been speculated that Majorana decided to abandon physics, disappearing because he had precociously realized that nuclear fission would inevitably lead to the atomic bomb. This book advances a different hypothesis. Through a careful analysis of Majorana's article "The Value of Statistical Laws in Physics and Social Sciences," which shows how in quantum physics reality is dissolved into probability, and in dialogue with Simone Weil's considerations on the topic, Giorgio Agamben suggests that, by disappearing into thin air, Majorana turned his very person into an exemplary cipher of the status of the real in our probabilistic universe. In so doing, the physicist posed a question to science that is still awaiting an answer: What is Real?
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Homo Sacer
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Technics and Time, 1
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The Open
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The Spirit of Utopia
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Being Singular Plural
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Aporias
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Technics and Time, 2
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"What Is an Apparatus?" and Other Essays
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Creation and Anarchy
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The Instant of My Death /Demeure
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On the Name
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On TouchingJean-Luc Nancy
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The Use of Bodies
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Rogues
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Technics and Time, 3
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Art As a Social System
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The Man Without Content
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Nudities
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Psyche
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Is It Righteous to Be?
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Points...
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A Child Is Being Killed
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The Highest Poverty
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Opus Dei
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God, Death, and Time
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Acting Out
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Files
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Pilate and Jesus
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Faux Pas
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Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime
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Karman
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The Kingdom and the Glory
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Reflections on Literature and Culture
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Friendship
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Homo Sacer
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State of Exception
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Infancy and History
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The Open
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Creation and Anarchy
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"What Is an Apparatus?" and Other Essays
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Remnants of Auschwitz
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Where Are We Now?
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Coming Community
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Language and Death
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The Use of Bodies
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Means Without End
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The Man Without Content
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Nudities
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Pilate and Jesus
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Holderlins Madness
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The Highest Poverty
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Opus Dei
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What Is Fear?
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Profanations
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The Kingdom and the Garden
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The Body of Language
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The Human Voice
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The Signature of All Things
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The Unrealizable
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Self-Portrait in the Studio
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The Unspeakable Girl
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Studiolo
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Karman
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Democracy in What State?
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The Kingdom and the Glory
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Pinocchio The Adventures of a Puppet, Doubly Commented Upon and Triply Illustrated
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Holderlins Madness Chronicle of a Dwelling Life, 18061843
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La comunità che viene
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Charles Baudelaire. Un poeta lirico nell'età del capitalismo avanzato
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Nymphs
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The Church and the Kingdom
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781503606210 |
| ISBN 10 | 150360621X |
| Title | What Is Real? |
| Author | Giorgio Agamben |
| Series | Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Stanford University Press |
| Year published | 2018-11-13 |
| Number of pages | 88 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |