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Author Agamben, Giorgio, 1942- author.

Title What is real? / Giorgio Agamben ; translated by Lorenzo Chiesa
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (68 pages)
Series Meridian: crossing aesthetics
Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)
Contents What Is Real? -- The Value of Statistical Laws in Physics and Social Sciences -- Notes
Summary In this philosophical detective story, Giorgio Agamben reads the mysterious 1938 disappearance of atomic physicist Ettore Majorana as an intentional and decisive objection to how quantum physics had reduced the real to probability
Notes "Originally published in Italian in 2016 under the title Che cos'è reale? La scomparsa di Majorana."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 24, 2018)
Subject Majorana, Ettore
SUBJECT Majorana, Ettore fast
Subject Nuclear physicists -- Italy
Missing persons -- Italy
Quantum theory.
Quantum Theory
SCIENCE -- Energy.
SCIENCE -- Mechanics -- General.
SCIENCE -- Physics -- General.
Missing persons
Nuclear physicists
Quantum theory
Italy
Genre/Form Elecctronic books
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018014658
ISBN 9781503607378
1503607372
Other Titles Che cos'è reale? English