What Is Real? - (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Giorgio Agamben (Paperback)

This book is a thought-provoking and intriguing read that delves into the mysterious disappearance of atomic physicist Ettore Majorana.

Agamben's philosophical detective story offers a unique perspective on the event, suggesting that Majorana's vanishing was not just an accident or a personal decision, but rather a deliberate and decisive objection to the probabilistic nature of quantum physics.

Through a careful analysis of Majorana's article "The Value of Statistical Laws in Physics and Social Sciences," Agamben argues that Majorana turned his very person into an exemplary cipher of the status of the real in our universe, posing a question to science that is still awaiting an answer: What is Real? This book will appeal to anyone interested in philosophy, physics, and the mysteries of the human experience.