Storytelling in Science and Literature

by Margery Arent Safir (Editor), Mieke Bal (Contribution by), Roald Hoffmann (Contribution by), Evelyn Fox Keller (Contribution by), Jean-Michel Rabaté Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsy (Contribution by)

Overview

This gathering of eminent thinkers from the sciences and the humanities engages a common theme: In what ways does language—and storytelling in particular—deal with ethics in science, in literature, and in other art forms? Evelyn Fox Keller, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Mieke Bal, and Roald Hoffmann explore ways in which science and rhetoric, politics and fiction, science and storytelling, and ethics and aesthetics are deeply and creatively imbricated with each other, rather than distinct and autonomous.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611486445
Publisher:	University Press Copublishing Division
Publication date:	12/24/2014
Series:	Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	122
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Margery Arent Safir is founder and executive director of the Arts Arena and professor of comparative literature emerita at the American University of Paris.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Beware the Jabberwock: A Cautionary Tale for Interdisciplinary Travel
By Margery Arent Safir
Chapter 1: Can the Circles of Language and Science Be Squared?
By Evelyn Fox Keller
Chapter 2: White Lies: Plato, Nietzsche, and Hollywood
By Jean-Michel Rabaté
Chapter 3: Honesty to the Singular Object
By Roald Hoffman
Chapter 4: The Ethics of Storytelling
By Mieke Bal
Bibliography
Index
About the Contributors