Remapping Reality

Remapping Reality
Author :
Publisher : Rodopi
Total Pages : 376
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9789042018181
ISBN-13 : 9042018186
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Remapping Reality by : John Aloysius McCarthy

Download or read book Remapping Reality written by John Aloysius McCarthy and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about intersections among science, philosophy, and literature. It bridges the gap between the traditional "cultures" of science and the humanities by constituting an area of interaction that some have called a "third culture." By asking questions about three disciplines rather than about just two, as is customary in research, this inquiry breaks new ground and resists easy categorization. It seeks to answer the following questions: What impact has the remapping of reality in scientific terms since the Copernican Revolution through thermodynamics, relativity theory, and quantum mechanics had on the way writers and thinkers conceptualized the place of human culture within the total economy of existence? What influence, on the other hand, have writers and philosophers had on the doing of science and on scientific paradigms of the world? Thirdly, where does humankind fit into the total picture with its uniquely moral nature? In other words, rather than privileging one discipline over another, this study seeks to uncover a common ground for science, ethics, and literary creativity. Throughout this inquiry certain nodal points emerge to bond the argument cogently together and create new meaning. These anchor points are the notion of movement inherent in all forms of existence, the changing concepts of evil in the altered spaces of reality, and the creative impulse critical to the literary work of art as well as to the expanding universe. This ambitious undertaking is unified through its use of phenomena typical of chaos and complexity theory as so many leitmotifs. While they first emerged to explain natural phenomena at the quantum and cosmic levels, chaos and complexity are equally apt for explaining moral and aesthetic events. Hence, the title "Remapping Reality" extends to the reconfigurations of the three main spheres of human interaction: the physical, the ethical, and the aesthetic or creative.


Remapping Reality Related Books

Remapping Reality
Language: en
Pages: 376
Authors: John Aloysius McCarthy
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Rodopi

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book is about intersections among science, philosophy, and literature. It bridges the gap between the traditional "cultures" of science and the humanities
Remapping Reality
Language: en
Pages: 375
Authors: John A. McCarthy
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-01-01 - Publisher: BRILL

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book is about intersections among science, philosophy, and literature. It bridges the gap between the traditional “cultures” of science and the humanit
Practicing Progress
Language: en
Pages: 234
Authors:
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-01-01 - Publisher: BRILL

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Practicing Progress focuses on the German Enlightenment in its dual manifestation as a cultural era and as a mode of discourse. The volume’s unifying theme is
Location-Based Gaming
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Dale Leorke
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-06-29 - Publisher: Springer

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Location-based games emerged in the early 2000s following the commercialisation of GPS and artistic experimentation with ‘locative media’ technologies. Loca
Remapping the Rhetorical Situation in Networked Culture
Language: en
Pages: 191
Authors: Ramesh Pokharel
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-06-02 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

With the advent of new media and technology, the notion of the rhetorical situation has changed, and there is now the exigence of a new theory of the rhetorical