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Makoto Katsumori 
Niels Bohr’s Complementarity 
Its Structure, History, and Intersections with Hermeneutics and Deconstruction

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This book explores the modern physicist Niels Bohr’s philosophical thought, specifically his pivotal idea of complementarity, with a focus on the relation between the roles of what he metaphorically calls “spectators” and “actors.” It seeks to spell out the structural and historical complexity of the idea of complementarity in terms of different modes of the ‘spectator-actor’ relation, showing, in particular, that the reorganization of Bohr’s thought starting from his 1935 debate with Einstein and his collaborators is characterized by an extension of the dynamic conception of complementarity from non-physical contexts to the very field of quantum theory. Further, linked with this analysis, the book situates Bohr’s complementarity in contemporary philosophical context by examining its intersections with post-Heideggerian hermeneutics as well as Derridean deconstruction. Specifically, it points to both the close affinities and the differences between Bohr’s idea of the ‘actor-spectator’ relation and the hermeneutic notion of the relation between “belonging” and “distanciation.”

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Table of Content

 Bohr and the Development of Quantum Theory: A Brief Review.- An Overview of Bohr’s  Complementarity.-  Prior Interpretations of Complementarity .- A Philosophical-Historical Analysis of Complementarity.- Intersections with Hermeneutic Philosophy.-  Intersections with Derridean Deconstruction.-  Concluding Remarks .- References.                              


                       


                          


                                                             


                                                                             

Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 178 ● ISBN 9789400717480 ● File size 2.7 MB ● Publisher Springer Netherland ● City Dordrecht ● Country NL ● Published 2011 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 4467759 ● Copy protection Social DRM

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