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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... universe must correspond to an alteration in his 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 ...
... universe and their political philosophy , for example , or the relation between the discovery of electro- magnetism and the rise of Romanticism . Of central significance is the fact that this field creates awareness of the total ...
... universe , cannot answer the question of original cause , and are reduced to repeating that time and space being born with the " Big Bang , " physicists do not speak of " before . " Yet the question cannot be escaped so easily , and ...
... universe in which he lives , while with the return of speculation to science , the object of inquiry into the unknown is not merely a how to in the applied sense , but a simple , and deeper , how and what , and for the most speculative ...
... universe " ( 22-23 ) . The two men , owner and intruder , have begun a conversation . " So you see no intention , no project , no finality ? No motivated uni- versal intelligence ? " the aging actor Dan Harrison asks . " In other words ...