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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... discourse . This volume is about reading and cognition and the mutual contagion of disciplines , about the being who knows and the being who feels , in other words , about the primitive dream that was the foundation of literature when ...
... discourse , which is the sum of all these coordinates . ' Michel Rio Alterations A generation of writers was born into the world according to Einstein and Bohr , the world of the new physics whose questions and concepts and names , let ...
... discourse . Roland Barthes writes : " criticism is discourse upon a discourse ; it is a second language , or a metalanguage ( as the logicians would say ) , which operates on a first language ( or language object ) . " When Barthes ...
... discourse in all of this ? " Welcome to the twentieth century , Mr. Wilmot ; we all have some catching up to do . Amazing things are coming out of Euro- pean physics . Time is the fourth dimension , it turns out , and slows down when ...
... discourse on historia in all its variations , from inquiry to narrative , natural history to the nature of history ; world and regional history , social and industrial history , family history , his history ; historiography and the ...