What Is Real?

Giorgio Agamben, Lorenzo Chiesa

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Stanford University Press
13 November 2018

Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge; Philosophy of science; Impact of science & technology on society; History of science

Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics

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?

By: Giorgio Agamben
Translated by: Lorenzo Chiesa
Imprint: Stanford University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 114mm,
ISBN: 9781503606210
ISBN 10: 150360621X
Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 13 November 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Giorgio Agamben is a contemporary Italian philosopher and political theorist whose works have been translated into numerous languages. His most recent title with Stanford University Press is Karman (2018).

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What Is Real?

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