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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... fact that this field creates awareness of the total interdependence of cul- tural phenomena in the development of what for long were taken to be " objective " and exact sciences . Stephen Jay Gould , who in addition to evolutionary ...
... facts , faced with the unimaginably minute , deprived of total predictability , or freed from it , some sound as if they were speaking from through the looking - glass ( Lewis Carroll himself , of course , was a man of science , a ...
... it comes in packets irreducible amounts called quanta .... 22 22 John Updike , In the Beauty of the Lilies ( 1996 ; reprint , London : Hamish Hamilton , 1996 ) , 78-79 . " All these strainings of our common sense are facts Introduction 11.
... Facts are facts , he sums up , the case of " people in the religion business ... at last is being proven . ” “ What kind of God is showing through , exactly ? " Lambert questions ( ibid . ) ; and therein begins the sparring match , with ...
... fact that my atoms will return to a more normal destiny does not console me in the slightest for the loss of their present identity , made up precisely of consciousness and history . " ( 51 ) " In your case then I can only think of a ...