Goethe, Chaos, and Complexity

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-90-420-1566-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 55, 201 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 490 g

Reihe: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Rowland, Herbert

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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
Figures

Leseproben

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
Figures