Goethe, chaos, and complexity / edited by Herbert Rowland.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rowland, Herbert, editor.

Series:

Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 55.

Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; 55

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 pages)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York, New York : Rodopi, [2001]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Rowland, Herbert Goethe, Chaos, and Complexity

ISBN:

9789004456228

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004456228 DOI