Brings together the humanities and sciences to redefine materialism for a new age.

INTANGIBLE MATERIALISM: The Body, Scientific Knowledge, and the Power of Language
Ronald Schleifer
University of Minnesota Press | 272 pages | 2009
ISBN 978-0-8166-4468-1 | paperback | $25.00
ISBN 978-0-8166-4467-4 | hardcover | $75.00

Ronald Schleifer shows how discoveries of modern physics have altered
conceptions of matter and energy and the ways in which both information
theory and the study of literature can enrich these conceptions.
Expanding the reductive notion of "the material" as simply matter and
energy, he formulates a new, more inclusive idea of materialism.

"Intangible Materialism is a welcome contribution to the current
theoretical discussions in the humanities, and it will be especially
appreciated for its engagement with biology, neural and cognitive
sciences, and consciousness studies."-Arkady Plotnitsky

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