Niels Bohr's Complementarity
Its Structure, History, and Intersections with Hermeneutics and Deconstruction
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Beschreibung
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.”
A new, original interpretation of Bohr’s complementarity through detailed textual and conceptual analysis Develops a fully new perspective on the post-EPR development of Bohr’s thought, based upon the distinction and interrelation between different conceptions of complementarity Goes far beyond the standard frames of the philosophy of science, the book provides a unique analysis of the conceptual linkage of complementarity with hermeneutic philosophy and Derridean deconstruction.
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Makoto Katsumori
Themen in »Niels Bohr's Complementarity«
Complementarity Deconstruction Hermeneutics Niels Bohr Quantum theory