Between Literature and Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Between Literature and Science write by Wolf Lepenies. This book was released on 1988. Between Literature and Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The theme of this book is the conflict which arose in the early nineteenth century between, on the one hand, the literary and, on the other hand, the scientific intellectuals of Europe, as they competed for recognition as the chief analysts of the new industrial society in which they lived. This conflicts was epitomised by the confrontation between Matthew Arnold and T. H. Huxley, and later in that between F. R. Leavis and C. P. Snow. Sociology was born as the third major discipline, though in many ways it was a hybrid of the literary and the scientific traditions. The social sciences continue, even today, to oscillate between these two traditions. The author chronicles the rise of the new discipline by discussing the lives and work of the most prominent thinkers of the time, in England, France and Germany. These include John Stuart Mill, H. G. Wells, Beatrice and Sidney Webb and T. S. Eliot; Auguste Comte, Charles Peguy, Emile Durkheim; Stefan George, Thomas Mann, Max Weber and Karl Mannheim. At stake was the right to formulate a philosophy of life for contemporary society, and to predict and pre-empt the worst consequences of industrialization. The book presents a penetrating study of idealists grappling with reality, when industrial society was still in its infancy. It will be of interest to those studying sociology and its history as a discipline, but it is equally relevant to other social science subjects which may be said to have arisen at about the same time" -- Back cover.
Literature and Science
Literature and Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literature and Science write by Aldous Huxley. This book was released on 1991. Literature and Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Connecting Literature and Science
Connecting Literature and Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Connecting Literature and Science write by Jay A. Labinger. This book was released on 2023-05. Connecting Literature and Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Brief History of L&S -- The Science Wars -- Models of Engagement -- Encoding an Infinite Message: Richard Powers's The Gold Bug Variations -- Is That a Coded Message? It May Not Be So Simple! -- Found in Translation -- Entropy as Time's (Double-Headed) Arrow in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia -- Chirality and Life -- Making New Life -- The End of Irony and/or the End of Science?
Literature and Science
Literature and Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Literature and Science write by B. Ifor Evans. This book was released on 2022-01-01. Literature and Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1954, Literature and Science discusses historically the relationship between science and literature and between scientists and men of letters from the Renaissance onwards. It shows periods when writers were enthusiastic about science as in the early days of the Royal Society and notably through the influence of Newton. Further it explores the later alienation between science and literature in the technological and industrial age. There is a full account of Wordsworth’s crucial relationships to these problems which leads to a number of new conclusions. Apart from his historical survey, Dr. Ifor Evans emphasises the contemporary importance of the relationship of the artist and the scientist and outlines an approach to a new humanism, in which the writer may reach some closer understanding of science than he has at present attained. Students interested in literature, history of literature and critical theory will find this book enlightening.
The Science of Literature
The Science of Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Science of Literature write by Helmut Müller-Sievers. This book was released on 2015-04-24. The Science of Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the most contentious questions in contemporary literary studies is whether there can ever be a science of literature that can lay claim to objectivity and universality, for example by concentrating on philological criticism, by appealing to cognitive science, or by exposing the underlying media of literary communication. The present collection of essays seeks to open up this discussion by posing the question’s historical and systematic double: has there been a science of literature, i.e. a mode of presentation and practice of reference in science that owes its coherence to the discourse of literature? Detailed analyses of scientific, literary and philosophical texts show that from the late 18th to the late 19th century science and literature were bound to one another through an intricate web of mutual dependence and distinct yet incalculable difference. The Science of Literature suggests that this legacy continues to shape the relation between literary and scientific discourses inside and outside of academia.
