Plotnitsky, Arkady

The knowable and the unknowable : Modern science, nonclassical thought, and the "Two cultures" / Arkady Plotnitsky. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2002. - xxiii, 319 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Studies in literature and science .

Includes bibliogr. references (p. [291]-299) and index.

Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments - Preface - Outline of the Chapters -- Chapter 1. An Introduction to Nonclassical Thought - Chapter 2. Quantum Mechanics, Complementarity, and Nonclassical Thought - Chapter 3. Versions of the Irrational: The Epistemology of Complex Numbers and Jacques Lacan's Quasi-Mathematics - Chapter 4. "But It Is Above All Not True": Derrida, Relativity, and the "Science Wars" - Chapter 5. Deconstructions - Conclusion - Notes - Bibliography - Index.

0472097970 (cloth : alk. paper) 0472067974 (paper : alk. paper)


Quantum theory
Science--Philosophy
Literature and science.