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Sweet science

Sweet science

Romantic materialism and the new logics of life

2017

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Livre de Amanda Jo Goldstein · juillet 2017 (États-Unis)

Genres : Essai, Version originale, Philosophie, Histoire, Sciences
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Today we do not expect poems to carry scientifically valid information. But it was not always so. In Sweet Science, Amanda Jo Goldstein returns to the beginnings of the division of labor between literature and science to recover a tradition of Romantic life writing for which poetry was a privileged technique of empirical inquiry. Goldstein puts apparently literary projects, such as William Blake’s poetry of embryogenesis, Goethe’s journals On Morphology, and Percy Shelley’s “poetry of life,”... Voir plus