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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What Is Philosophy?
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On the Name
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On Touching—Jean-Luc Nancy
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Art As a Social System
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Resistances of Psychoanalysis
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The Use of Bodies
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The Work of Fire
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Of God Who Comes to Mind
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Rogues
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Technics and Time, 3
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The Highest Poverty
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The Man Without Content
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Nudities
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Writings on Art and Literature
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Psyche
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Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime
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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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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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The End of the Poem
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Faux Pas
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The Rules of Art
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Who's Afraid of Philosophy?
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The Fire and the Tale
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Posthumous People
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The Experience of Freedom
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Karman
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Eyes of the University
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The Muses
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Potentialities
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The Kingdom and the Glory
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Musica Ficta
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Traces
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Reflections on Literature and Culture
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| 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. |
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