Do literary texts provide distinctive access to the history of science? Is the study of literature based on scientific procedures? Is there a connection between scientific processes and literary forms? The essays in this collection show how literary...
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Do literary texts provide distinctive access to the history of science? Is the study of literature based on scientific procedures? Is there a connection between scientific processes and literary forms? The essays in this collection show how literary and scientific texts from the late 18th to the late 19th centuries revolve around these questions. Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: A Science of Literature? -- 1) Poetics of the Life Sciences -- Formative Forces: Biological, Philosophical, and Linguistic Generativity -- Divining Relations: Forms of Generational Recognition around 1800 -- Tidings of the Earth: Towards a History of Romantic Erdkunde -- On Nerve Fibers: Rhetoric and Brain Anatomy in Georg Büchner -- 2) The Science of Reading -- Reading Off: On the Emergence of the Scientific Gaze -- On the Margins of Derrida's Terminology : Deconstruction, Dissemination, mise en abîme -- What Does it Mean to Orient Oneself in Thinking? -- A Tremendous Chasm: Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, and the Measure of Poetry -- 3) The Applied Science of Literature -- Torque: Life and Motion in the 19th Century -- A Doctrine of Transmissions: On the Classification of Machines Around 1800 -- The Novel Machine: Narration in the 19th Century -- The Moment of Narration: Outlines for a Kinematic Study of Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre -- Afterword -- List of First Publications -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
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Table of Contents; Introduction: A Science of Literature?; 1) Poetics of the Life Sciences; Formative Forces: Biological, Philosophical, and Linguistic Generativity; Divining Relations: Forms of Generational Recognition around 1800; Tidings of the Earth: Towards a History of Romantic Erdkunde; On Nerve Fibers: Rhetoric and Brain Anatomy in Georg Büchner; 2) The Science of Reading; Reading Off: On the Emergence of the Scientific Gaze; On the Margins of Derrida's Terminology : Deconstruction, Dissemination, mise en abîme; What Does it Mean to Orient Oneself in Thinking?
A Tremendous Chasm: Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy, and the Measure of Poetry3) The Applied Science of Literature; Torque: Life and Motion in the 19th Century; A Doctrine of Transmissions: On the Classification of Machines Around 1800; The Novel Machine: Narration in the 19th Century; The Moment of Narration: Outlines for a Kinematic Study of Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre; Afterword; List of First Publications; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index
