Quantum Aesthetics: Juan Larrea, Niels Bohr and the Included Third
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https://doi.org/10.25145/j.cedille.2020.18.09Keywords:
Complementarity principle, The Atom Structure, Quantum Entanglements, Dualisms, TransdisciplinarityAbstract
This essay explores notable coincidences in Juan Larrea’s poetics with some central points in quantum physics, such as, the correlation between the search in his inner self and the investigations on the atom taking place during the first decades of the twentieth-century, between leaving aside the monolithic subjectivity in favor of a universal and collective Spirit and the ‹‹entangled›› observer in the cosmic web, object of his/her observation, in modern physics, and, particularly, the role of the French language in dealing with the conflict with Western dualisms and their possible resolution in Bohr’s principle of complementarity, a parallel of Basarab Nicolescu’s theory of the hidden third.
Keywords: Complementarity principle, The Atom Structure, Quantum Entanglements, Dualisms, Transdisciplinarity.
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