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Mediating Order and Chaos
Rodney Farnsworth
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The Water-Cycle in the Complex Adaptive Systems of Romantic Culture
出版BRILL, 2021-11-08
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralArt / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)Design / History & CriticismArt / Techniques / GeneralHistory / GeneralPolitical Science / GeneralSocial Science / GeneralSocial Science / Popular CultureSocial Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
ISBN90044901329789004490130
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=GpNOEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This literature-centered study offers an interdisciplinary approach to Romantic culture. If is pioneering in that it employs the complexity method of anthropology. Recent literary studies employ the complexity/chaos theory adapted from the natural sciences; however, here is presented for the first time a complexity method taken from the social/human sciences. This complexity method is useful in mediating not only contradictions within Romanticism, but the chaos of contemporary theories concerning it. One of the intensifying literary debates is that between the so-called “Greens” and “Reds,” naturalists and humanists.
Mediating Order and Chaos not only traces the split between nature and man to Romantic Culture but finds there, too, a Spinozian vision of man and nature in unity – thereby denying any naturalist/humanist split. This volume is of interest for those who wish to see essays in the holistic approach to culture. Centering on hydraulics, hydrology, and meteorology, this study examines literature, painting, music, economics, and the rhetoric of science, philosophy, and politics, it therewith demonstrates how the water cycle was transformed into a cosmic metaphor that mediated, in the form of several complex adaptive systems, between the chaos of too much change and that of not enough.