Time Travel – The Popular Philosophy of Narrative Wittenberg Hardback

Time TravelThe Popular Philosophy of Narrative\nAuthor(s): David Wittenberg\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9780823249961, 978-0823249961\nSynopsis\nThis book argues that time travel fiction is a narrative \""laboratory,\"" a setting for thought experiments in which essential theoretical questions about storytellingand, by extension, about the philosophy of temporality, history, and subjectivityare represented in the form of literal devices and plots.\n Drawing on physics, philosophy, narrative theory, psychoanalysis, and film theory, the book links innovations in time travel fiction to specific shifts in the popularization of science, from evolutionary biology in the late 1800s, through relativity and quantum physics in the mid20th century, to more recent \""multiverse\"" cosmologies. Wittenberg shows how increasing awareness of new scientific models leads to surprising innovations in the literary \""time .