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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... speak to one another across a body of fiction . By applying a method to a test case , I am targeting the simple question with which I began : Can literature be resituated at the center of intellectual discourse in the age of science ...
... speak of the past or the future , where time no longer " passes " but is laid out as part of a four - dimensional struc- ture , space - time ? What happens to the individual , made of history and of memory ? What happens to morality in ...
... speaks of jeux de figures , the conceptual equivalent of Lévi - Strauss's models , and of combinatoire , a calculus of combinations , " analogous to laws of transforma- tion " ( Lane , 37 ) , literature is being " scienced ...
... speak of " before . " Yet the question cannot be escaped so easily , and some make leaps of faith , sound like poets moving toward the cosmological , and , together with philoso- phers , muse in print as well as in private about the ...
... speak , where it risks becoming restrictive rather than expansive . There are evident limits , and I think a few dangers , in a focus that can only be practiced or enjoyed by a certain eye . I have preferred to return to an earlier ...