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Metafact: Essayistic Science in Eighteenth-Century France: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatu, cartea 278

Autor Lars O. Erikson, Lars Olav Erickson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iun 2004
Why is science often considered the opposite of literature? Lars O. Erickson examines the relationship between these two fields in eighteenth-century France and finds that the major intellectual and scientific transitions of the period can be better understood by paying attention to literary developments, particularly in genres not traditionally associated with learned societies.Erickson examines works by Diderot and Maupertuis and identifies a shared renegade spirit he calls "essayistic science." He demonstrates how the essay, a vague genre characterized by an openness to lay audiences, a self-reflective character, and an insistence on broad overviews, was used to react to a crisis in knowledge and to question the production of facts. Consequently, essayistic science does not deal with facts but with "metafacts," breaking down scientific traditions and bridging objective science with subjective literature.
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ISBN-13: 9780807892824
ISBN-10: 0807892823
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 152 x 233 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: University of North Carolina Press
Seriile North Carolina Studies in Romance Languages and Literature, North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatu


Notă biografică

Lars O. Erickson is assistant professor of French at the University of Rhode Island.