Visions of the Future: Malthusian Thought Experiments in Russian Literature (1840-1960) - Couverture rigide

Grigorian, Natasha

Couverture rigide

ISBN 13 : 9798887190556

Editeur : Academic Studies Press, 2023

Synopsis

This book is inspired by the author’s work as part of a major international and interdisciplinary research group at the University of Konstanz, Germany: “What If—On the Meaning, Relevance, and Epistemology of Counterfactual Claims and Thought Experiments.” Having contributed to great discoveries, such as those by Galileo and Einstein, thought experiments are especially topical in the twenty-first century, since this is a concept that bridges the gap between the arts and the sciences, promoting interdisciplinary innovation. To study thought experiments in literature, it is imperative to examine relevant texts closely: this has rarely been done to date and this is precisely what this book does as a pilot study focusing on selected works of philosophy and literature. Specifically, thought experiments by Thomas Malthus are analyzed side by side with short stories and novels by Vladimir Odoevsky and Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Alexander Bogdanov and Aleksei Tolstoy, Alexander Chaianov and Nina Berberova.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Natasha Grigorian is a Research Associate at the University of Konstanz and a Comparative Literature scholar educated at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Paris-Sorbonne. In 2007-2010, she was the Rutherford Research Fellow at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. She completed her BA (Hons) in Modern Languages and her DPhil at Magdalen College, Oxford.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Academic Studies Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798887190556
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 134
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