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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... Culture , whose grant permitted George Craig's splendid translation of several of the essays in this collection . Finally , I would like to thank Acquisitions Editor James Peltz and Produc- tion Editor Diane Ganeles of SUNY Press , and ...
... culture , consciousness , and matter and speculates on the shifting levels of relation among them . 8 9 Relation and Residue The word " relation " is key here , and is implicit in my introducing a kind of fiction through reference to ...
... cultural events , any discussion of which risks painfully bela- boring the obvious . My tour of the terrain will be brief , and determined by my specific concern , the production of fiction . 10 Roland Barthes , " What Is Criticism ...
... culture and scientific development , the relation between John Stuart Mill or William Whewell's choice of scientific models of the universe and their political philosophy , for example , or the relation between the discovery of electro ...
... cultural phenom- ena I have discussed . Nor can he be seen as a pure and simple spectator . On the contrary , he was in the fray . After two years of study in economics at Rouen and five years of modern languages and literature at the ...