Representing Light across Arts and Sciences: Theories and Practices

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-3-89971-735-8
Verlag: V&R unipress

Buch, Englisch, Band Band 002, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 640 g

Reihe: Interfacing Science, Literature, and the Humanities

Light symbols are the basis of the same alphabet, as well as geometry is a geometry of light: the geometrical point is a star-light point and the straight line is a light ray. Rightness and righteousness and all related concepts have this symbolical origin. The first words are ideograms, icons, images, and the word itself is conceived on the model of manifestation of light, it’s isomorphic to light as a theophany.Light is not only the central archetype of the diurnal regime of imagination, but also, through contrast, of the nocturnal regime of imagination. Every literary text is all-pervaded by the semantic field of light and of all which is related to it. Every scientific theory is a theory of light or presupposes one. Semiotics and rhetoric of light are operating and are the means to operate within every literary text and every scientific practice.This book focuses on the analysis of the entanglement between science and literature within literary texts and scientific theories through the perspective of light as archetype and absolute metaphor.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Agazzi, Elena

Giannetto, Enrico

Giudice, Franco

Weitere Mitwirkende

Agazzi, Elena

Fortunati, Vita

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie

Leseproben

Light symbols are the basis of the same alphabet, as well as geometry is a geometry of light: the geometrical point is a star-light point and the straight line is a light ray. Rightness and righteousness and all related concepts have this symbolical origin. The first words are ideograms, icons, images, and the word itself is conceived on the model of manifestation of light, it’s isomorphic to light as a theophany. Light is not only the central archetype of the diurnal regime of imagination, but also, through contrast, of the nocturnal regime of imagination. Every literary text is all-pervaded by the semantic field of light and of all which is related to it. Every scientific theory is a theory of light or presupposes one. Semiotics and rhetoric of light are operating and are the means to operate within every literary text and every scientific practice. This book focuses on the analysis of the entanglement between science and literature within literary texts and scientific theories through the perspective of light as archetype and absolute metaphor.>

Über Autor(innen)

Agazzi, Elena
Dr. Elena Agazzi ist Professorin für German Studies an der Universität Bergamo. Elena Agazzi is Full Professor for German Studies at the University of Bergamo. Her latest researches deal with the problem of cultural memory in Germany and Europe in the wake of the Second World War.

Giannetto, Enrico
Enrico Giannetto is Professor of History of Science and head of the Philosophical Doctorate School in Anthropology and Epistemology of Complexity at the University of Bergamo.

Giudice, Franco
Franco Giudice is tenure Research Fellow at University of Bergamo.

Agazzi, Elena
Dr. Elena Agazzi ist Professorin für German Studies an der Universität Bergamo. Elena Agazzi is Full Professor for German Studies at the University of Bergamo. Her latest researches deal with the problem of cultural memory in Germany and Europe in the wake of the Second World War.

Elena Agazzi is Full Professor for German Studies at the University of Bergamo. Her latest researches deal with the problem of cultural memory in Germany and Europe in the wake of the Second World War.

Enrico Giannetto is Professor of History of Science and head of the Philosophical Doctorate School in Anthropology and Epistemology of Complexity at the University of Bergamo.

Franco Giudice is tenure Research Fellow at University of Bergamo.