Physics and Literature: Concepts – Transfer – Aestheticization

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2022

Physics and Literature

Concepts – Transfer – Aestheticization

Edited by: Aura Heydenreich and Klaus Mecke

Volume 3 in the series Literatur- und Naturwissenschaften

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110481112

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Physics and Literature is a unique collaboration between physicists, literary scholars, and philosophers, the first collection of essays to examine together how science and literature, beneath their practical differences, share core dimensions – forms of questioning, thinking, discovering and communicating insights.This book advances an in-depth exploration of relations between physics and literature from both perspectives. It turns around the tendency to discuss relations between literature and science in one-sided and polarizing ways. The collection is the result of the inaugural conference of ELINAS, the Erlangen Center for Literature and Natural Science, an initiative dedicated to building bridges between literary and scientific research. ELINAS revitalizes discussion of science-literature interconnections with new topics, ideas and angles, by organizing genuine dialogue among participants across disciplinary lines.
The essays explore how scientific thought and practices are conditioned by narrative and genre, fiction, models and metaphors, and how science in turn feeds into the meaning-making of literary and philosophical texts. These interdisciplinary encounters enrich reflections on epistemology, cognition and aesthetics.

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Aura Heydenreich and Klaus Mecke, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	I
Contents Open Access Download PDF	V
Introduction Aura Heydenreich and Klaus Mecke Open Access Download PDF	1
Part I: Epistemic Functions of Narration and Metaphor in Science
Insight by Metaphor – The Epistemic Role of Metaphor in Science Nikola Kompa Open Access Download PDF	23
Epistemic Narrativity in Albert Einstein’s Treatise on Special Relativity Aura Heydenreich Open Access Download PDF	49
Albert Einstein’s “Physics and Reality” and “The Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies” Aura Heydenreich Open Access Download PDF	105
Physics and Fiction Giovanni Vignale Open Access Download PDF	139
Part II: Concepts: Formation and Transfer
Concept Formation in Physics from a Linguist’s Perspective Winfried Thielmann Open Access Download PDF	149
Everything in Context Jay A. Labinger Open Access Download PDF	163
Induction after Electromagnetism Kieran Murphy Open Access Download PDF	179
The Paradoxical Interplay of Exactitude and Indefiniteness Arkady Plotnitsky Open Access Download PDF	197
The Horizon of the Horizon Stephan Mühr Open Access Download PDF	231
Interference Lukas Mairhofer Open Access Download PDF	253
Part III: Aestheticization and Literarization of Physics
Literary Epistemology Bernadette Malinowski Open Access Download PDF	279
The “Poetic Element” of Science Angela Gencarelli Open Access Download PDF	303
Possible Worlds Dirk Vanderbeke Open Access Download PDF	325
The Physics of Metaphysics Maximilian Bergengruen Open Access Download PDF	341
Establishing Evidence through a Shift in Viewpoint Clemens Özelt Open Access Download PDF	361
Narrating Science – Physics for Non-physicists Lutz Kasper Open Access Download PDF	381
The Making of A Mystic Dream of 4 Ignatius McGovern Open Access Download PDF	397
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Author and Editor Directory Open Access Download PDF	409
Index Open Access Download PDF	411

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics from Literary Studies, German Studies, English Studies, Romance Studies, Physics
Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 415
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 10
- Coloured Illustrations: 12
Keywords: Cultural and Science Studies; Narrating Science; Metaphors and Concept Formation; Interdisciplinary Transfer

eBook

Published: December 20, 2021
ISBN: 9783110481112

Hardcover

Published: December 20, 2021
ISBN: 9783110479577