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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... intellectual 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 ...
... intellectual and affective position , thus of literary 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 ...
... intellectual formation . France in the 1960s and 1970s , a " new " perspective takes hold : structuralist theories and method , the basic tenets of which had been laid out in linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure a half century before ...
... intellectually at the emergence of interdisciplinarity , a generation of authors today writes in a world where science , whether scholarly , popu- larized or vulgarized , is everywhere present . The proliferation and promul- gation of ...
... intellectual utility . This is elucidating fiction . Institution Press , 1993 ) . Another case is physicist Alan Lightman , turned fiction - writer with Einstein's Dreams ( New York : Pantheon Books , 1993 ) . 36 A group of authors also ...