The Poetic Structure of the World: Copernicus and Kepler - Couverture souple

Hallyn, Fernand

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0942299612 ISBN 13 : 9780942299618

Editeur : Zone Books, 1993

Synopsis

The Poetic Structure of the World is a major reconsideration of a crucial turning point in Western thought and culture: the heliocentric revolution of Copernicus and Kepler. Conceiving of their work not in terms of a history of science or astronomy, but as events embedded in a wider field of images, symbols, texts, and practices, Fernand Hallyn insists that these new representations of the universe cannot be explained by recourse to theories of "genius" and "intuition."

The scientific imagination is not fundamentally different from a mythic or poetic imagination, and the work of Copernicus and Kepler, Hallyn contends, must be examined on the level of rhetorical structure. Thus the new sun-centered universe is shown to be inseparable from the aesthetic, epistemological, theological, and social imperatives of both Neoplatonism and Mannerism in the sixteenth century.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Fernand Hallyn is a Professor in the Department of French Literature at the University of Ghent.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Zone Books
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0942299612
• ISBN 13: 9780942299618
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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