The Poetry Of Knowledge And The 'two Cultures' (palgrave Studies In Literature, Science And Medicine)
by John G. Fitch /
2018 / English / PDF
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This book argues that poetry is compatible with systematic
knowledge including science, and indeed inherent in it; it also
discusses particular poems that engage with such knowledge,
including those of Lucretius, Vergil, and Vita Sackville-West. The
book argues that there are substantial similarities between
knowledge-making and poetry-making, for example in their being
shaped by language, including metaphor, and in their seeking unity
in the world, under the impulse of
This book argues that poetry is compatible with systematic
knowledge including science, and indeed inherent in it; it also
discusses particular poems that engage with such knowledge,
including those of Lucretius, Vergil, and Vita Sackville-West. The
book argues that there are substantial similarities between
knowledge-making and poetry-making, for example in their being
shaped by language, including metaphor, and in their seeking unity
in the world, under the impulse oferos
eros and pleasure. The
book also discusses some of the obstacles to a ‘poetry of
knowledge’, including scientific objectivism, the Kantian tradition
in philosophy, and the separation of the ‘two cultures’ in our
academic and intellectual institutions. The book is designed to be
accessible to all those interested in the issue of the ‘two
cultures’, or in the role of poetry and of science in contemporary
culture.
and pleasure. The
book also discusses some of the obstacles to a ‘poetry of
knowledge’, including scientific objectivism, the Kantian tradition
in philosophy, and the separation of the ‘two cultures’ in our
academic and intellectual institutions. The book is designed to be
accessible to all those interested in the issue of the ‘two
cultures’, or in the role of poetry and of science in contemporary
culture.