Quantum mechanics and Brecht's epic theater contemporaneously shattered the paradigm of detached observation. In two fields, assumptions were cast in doubt regarding the continuity and strict causality of the investigated processes and the singularity and identity of the observed objects. Brecht drew far-reaching aesthetic and ethical inferences from the reconceptualization of the atom and individual and their epistemological relationship.

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Lukas Mairhofer , Universität Wien, Österreich.