The Third Culture: Literature and Science

ISBN-13: 9783110142921 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 329 str.

Elinor S. Shaffer

Opis

More recently, C.P.Snow's notion of a possible "third nation" in which the literary and the scientific culture interact has been explored in new ways by theorists on both sides of the divide, seeking a terminology and set of procedures to investigate the common "cultural field". The topics explored, using a range of European examples drawn from the period of the 17th to the 20th century, include the creative process or serendipity in science and art; modes of perception and experimental enquiry; the use of figures, images and narrative forms in science; the representation of science literary works; and "bridging" exercises such as Naturphilosophie, occult or "soft" sciences, organic aesthetics, and anthropic arguments.

Spis treści

Frontmatter -- Introduction: The Third Culture - Negotiating the 'two cultures' -- Theoretical Approaches -- Has Nature a Future? -- Serendipity in Poetry and Physics -- Sense and Nonsense of Chaos Theory in Literary Studies -- Romanticism -- Goethe and the Language of Science -- The Aesthetics of Magnetism: Science, Philosophy and Poetry in the Dialogue Between Goethe and Schelling -- "Hollin's Liebeleben": Arnim's Transmutation of Science into Literature -- Novalis, Ritter and 'Experiment': A Tradition of 'Active Empiricism' -- The Death of The Poet: Coleridge and the Science of Logic -- Mont Blanc's Mysterious Voice: Shelley and Huttonian Earth Science -- Writing Medical Identities 1780-1820 -- Modernism and Post-Modernism -- Chemical Solutions: Scientific Paradigms in Nietzsche and Proust -- Beyond All Certainty: Wittgenstein and Turing: An Account of a Philosophical Dialogue on Skill and Technology -- Natural History: The Retro-Victorian Novel -- "The World Before Eyes": Calvin, Barthes and Science -- Bibliography -- Figures and Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Index -- Backmatter