1st Edition
Postmodern Postures Literature, Science and the Two Cultures Debate
By Daniel Cordle
Copyright 1999
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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In 1996 the physicist Alan Sokal planted a hoax article in the journal Social Text, mimicking the social constructionist view of science popular in the humanities, and sparked into life the ’science wars’ which had been rumbling throughout the 1990s. Postmodern Postures puts this contemporary controversy into the context of earlier debates about the ’two cultures’, between F.R. Leavis and C.P.... Read more
Contents: Introduction: Patterns and postures; Part One: Theory: The two cultures: literature versus science; Literature-science methodology and the science wars; Part Two: Practice: Discourses of knowledge: Chaotic order; Discourses of identity: machines, bodies and information; Discourses of time: purpose and absurdity; Histories: Postmodernism, literature and science; Conclusion: Advancing Together?; Bibliography; Index.
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Daniel Cordle
