What Is Real?

by Giorgio Agamben

Book Overview

Eighty years ago, Ettore Majorana, a brilliant student of Enrico Fermi, disappeared under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo to Naples. How is it possible that the most talented physicist of his generation vanished without leaving a trace? It has long been speculated that Majorana decided to abandon physics, disappearing because he had precociously realized that nuclear fission would inevitably lead to the atomic bomb. This...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150360621X
• ISBN13: 9781503606210
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.4" x 6.9"