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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... present , and future , conjuring up an image of a future that in some sense already exists , " and so cuts from under our feet the victory won with the help of the quantum factor . If the future is there , " physicist Paul Davies asks ...
... present . The proliferation and promul- gation of intelligent and intelligible scientific publications , and public interest in them , have allowed for the return if not of the early - nineteenth century's amateur natural philosopher ...
... present identity , made up precisely of consciousness and history . " ( 51 ) " In your case then I can only think of a fourth God , " Avalon says ( 53 ) . And so this fiction writer offers up the God of mathematicians , and with Him the ...
... present ; through shipwrecks , sentimental jour- neys , and Aztec codices ; peopled with monks , naturalists , a librarian , the contract killer who reads the historian Marc Bloch , women of intellect and beauty and libidinous ...
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