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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... language in which they are posed , must be invented or reinvented . " The common 2 Some of the concepts to which I refer are a source of debate among physicists them- selves , and " mainstream " physicists are quite disparaging of many ...
... language based upon its systematic nature and had defined linguistic elements in terms of relation and function . Jakobson was already employing the term structuralism and calling for the scientific study of language as a system in 1929 ...
... language applicable to languages that use language , that is , to literature . Criticism does not deal with the world but with discourse . Roland Barthes writes : " criticism is discourse upon a discourse ; it is a second language , or ...
... language in scientific discovery . Discovery brings with it a need to name , a need for coinage ( as a philologist Whewell was regularly con- sulted by scientists for this purpose ) ; and persuasion , or argumentation , based on the use ...
... Language matters in another direction as well , for contemporary History and Philosophy of Science is largely responsible for making scientific material accessible to nonscientists , not only because of its global perspective , but ...