Goethe, Chaos, and Complexity

Buch | Softcover

220 Seiten

2001
Editions Rodopi B.V. (Verlag)
978-90-420-1566-1 (ISBN)

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The present volume is the first to address the interrelationship between Goethe’s scientific thought and work, his ideas on art and literary oeuvre, and chaos and complexity theories. The eleven studies assembled in it treat one or more elements or aspects of this interrelationship, ranging from basic concepts all the way to a model of an aesthetic-scientific methodology. In the process, the authors scrutinize chaos and complexity both as motif and motor of literary texts and nature within various contexts of past and present. The volume should be of interest to literary scholars, scientists, and philosophers of science, indeed, to all those who are interested in the continuities between the humanities and sciences, culture and nature.

Foreword
Herbert ROWLAND: Foreword: Goethe and No End.
Conceptual and Historical Parameters
Floyd MERRELL: Order and Chaos, Simplicity and Complexity
John A. MCCARTHY: The “Pregnant Point”: Goethe on Complexity, Interdisciplinarity, and Emergence.
Goethe’s Science and a Goethean (Philosophy of) Science
Gabrielle BERSIER: Goethe’s Geology in Flux: Vulcanism and Neptunism in the Translation of Richard Payne Knight’s Expedition into Sicily and the Italian Journey.
Astrida ORLE TANTILLO: Goethe’s Evolutionary Thinking
Richard HAGLUND: Visualization and Emergence in Contemporary Physics
Tom MELLETT: Goethean Science: Bringing Chaos to Order by Looking Phenomena Right in the I
Bruce K. KIRCHOFF: Aspects of a Goethean Science: Complexity and Holism in Science and Art
Goethe’s Scientific Thought and His Art
Karl J. FINK: Goethe’s Intensified Border
James M. van der LAAN: Faust and Textual Chaos
Nicholas RENNIE: Between Pascal and Mallarmé: Faust’s Speculative Moment
Steven D. MARTINSON: Organizing Chaos: “Organisation” in Herder and Goethe’s Werther and Faust
Roundtable Discussion
Reactions and Reflections
Bibliography
General Bibliography of Works Cited
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Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.1.2001
Reihe/Serie	Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 55
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 240 mm
Gewicht	384 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	90-420-1566-7 / 9042015667
ISBN-13	978-90-420-1566-1 / 9789042015661
Zustand	Neuware