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Contemporary physics plays :

3319751484

9783319751481

9783319751474

Contemporary physics plays :

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making time to know responsibility /

Jenni G. Halpin.

Cham, Switzerland :

Palgrave Macmillan,

[2018]

©2018

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Palgrave pivot

Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intro; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction: Ethics and Physics in Contemporary Plays; Bibliography; Chapter 2: Playing Nuclear War: Learning Postmodern War from Modern Physics; Can You Live with Nukes?; What Happens in Hapgood?; Espionage as Thought Experiment; Deciding Both Ways; Bibliography; Chapter 3: Relativistic Intertextuality: Einstein as a Figure; Albert Einstein and His Son; Projecting Time; "Germany can go to hell!"; What Man Can Destroy; Sailing into the Storm; Bibliography

Chapter 4: What You Don't Know Is Going to Hurt Like Hell: Knowledge, Power, and the Faustian BargainArcadia as Reheated Cup of Coffee; "Knowing" the "Facts"; Communal Responsibility; Backwards Propagation: Now Then Again's Handshake with Time; Fidelity to the Physics: Comparing Now Then Again and Betrayal; Faust or Don Juan in Fermilab; Deciding Fidelity; Bibliography; Chapter 5: Torn Palimpsest and Recycled Time: Copenhagen and Conclusion; Time, History, and Meeting the Other; What Happened in Copenhagen?; A Dramatic History of Physics; Heisenberg on Trial: (Not) Knowing Why

Memory, Time, and PurposeDeciding Responsibility Toward the Ghosts; Bibliography; Index

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This book analyzes recent physics plays, arguing that their enaction of concepts from the sciences they discuss alters the nature of the decisions made by the characters, changing the ethical judgementsthat might be cast on them. Recent physics plays regularly alter the shape of space-time itself, drawing together disparate moments, reversing the flow of time, creating apparent contradictions, and iterating scenes for multiple branches of counterfactual history. With these changes both causality and responsibility shift, variously. The roles of iconic scientists, such as Albert Einstein and Werner Heisenberg, are interrogated for their dramatic value, placing history and dramatic license in tension. Cold War strategies and the limits of espionage highlight the emphatically personal involvement of ordinary individuals. This study is vital reading for those interested in physics plays and the relationship between the sciences and the humanities.

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Drama-- History and criticism.

Dramatic criticism.

Science fiction plays-- History and criticism.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Literary.

Drama.

Dramatic criticism.

Science fiction plays.

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Halpin, Jenni G.

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