Melancholies of Knowledge: Literature in the Age of ScienceMargery Arent Safir, Stephen Jay Gould, State University of New York SUNY Press, 1 בינו׳ 1999 - 205 עמודים "We need the integration of our disciplines, the end to false dichotomizations, the recognition that we cannot grasp human uniqueness until we both practice art and understand science. We must celebrate a novelist who can teach scientists so much about evolution with a literary ploy rooted in anachronism--and we must tolerate a scientist who chooses to pay his respects by writing for a book of literary criticism." --from the essay by Stephen Jay Gould Offering interdisciplinary criticism and methodology, Melancholies of Knowledge includes essays by scientists, social scientists, and literary critics on the work of the French novelist Michel Rio. It provides a non-specialist's description of the most important scientific changes in the century--easily understandable and related to issues of concern in the humanities--as well as an opportunity to see how these scientific changes are being incorporated into literary discourse, into the human element outside of theory or the laboratory. In presenting a new methodology that proposes true interdisciplinarity, Melancholies of Knowledge identifies a new class of contemporary fiction and, as a test case, provides the first serious criticism of a major contemporary French author. |
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... Age of Science Stephen Jay Gould Michel Pastoureau James Ritter James Swenson Jean - Michel Rabaté Joaquín Galarza Christian Metz Edited by Margery Arent Safir MELANCHOLIES OF KNOWLEDGE This One ESDF - 3EP - L7A6. Melancholies of Front ...
... Rabaté 129 7.The Aztec tlacuilo and the Other Joaquín Galarza 149 8. The Mind's I Christian Metz 161 Appendices 181 Contributors 193 Index 197 PREFACE Literature is the mother of matricidal daughters whose names vi Contents.
... Rabaté , and myself speak to one another across a body of fiction . By applying a method to a test case , I am targeting the simple question with which I began : Can literature be resituated at the center of intellectual discourse in ...
... Rabaté ; and myself in explicating the novels of one of the authors of fiction I have quoted , the French writer Michel Rio . Why Michel Rio ? A conjuncture of content and circumstance , both practical and historical , determined the ...
... Rabaté's reflections on psychological anthropomor- phism . History , its displacement and rewriting , interests Gould for the scientific truth revealed by informed fictional invention . In my own essay history becomes a matter of ...