Physics and Literature. Concepts – Transfer – Aestheticization

Heydenreich A, Mecke K (2021)


Publication Language: English

Publication Status: Accepted

Publication Type: Edited Volume

Subtype: Book

Future Publication Type: Edited Volume

Publication year: 2021

Publisher: De Gruyter

Series: Literatur- und Naturwissenschaften

City/Town: Berlin, Boston

Book Volume: 3

ISBN: 978-3-11-048111-2

URI: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110481112/html

DOI: 10.1515/9783110481112

Abstract

Physics and Literature is a unique collaboration between physicists, literary scholars, and philosophers, the first collection of essays to examine together how science and literature, beneath their practical differences, share core dimensions – forms of questioning, thinking, discovering and communicating insights.This book advances an in-depth exploration of relations between physics and literature from both perspectives. It turns around the tendency to discuss relations between literature and science in one-sided and polarizing ways. The collection is the result of the inaugural conference of ELINAS, the Erlangen Center for Literature and Natural Science, an initiative dedicated to building bridges between literary and scientific research. ELINAS revitalizes discussion of science-literature interconnections with new topics, ideas and angles, by organizing genuine dialogue among participants across disciplinary lines.
The essays explore how scientific thought and practices are conditioned by narrative and genre, fiction, models and metaphors, and how science in turn feeds into the meaning-making of literary and philosophical texts. These interdisciplinary encounters enrich reflections on epistemology, cognition and aesthetics.

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APA:

Heydenreich, A., & Mecke, K. (Eds.) (2021). Physics and Literature. Concepts – Transfer – Aestheticization. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.

MLA:

Heydenreich, Aura, and Klaus Mecke, eds. Physics and Literature. Concepts – Transfer – Aestheticization. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2021.

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