Milieus of Minutiae (eBook)

Contextualizing the Small in Literature, Philosophy, and Science

Elizabeth Brogden, Christiane Frey (Herausgeber)

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2024
288 Seiten
University of Virginia Press (Verlag)
978-0-8139-5064-8 (ISBN)

Infos

The long history of tiny matter(s) in the sciences, thought, and culture From catastrophic weather and steady warming caused by the accumulation of carbon particles in the Earth's atmosphere to societies brought to a standstill by microscopic viruses, the new millennium has reminded us of how the minutest of phenomena can have outsized effects. This notion is one that has preoccupied the European and Anglo-American cultural imaginary since at least early modernity.Milieus of Minutiae brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to investigate various forms and appearances of minutiae prior to and beyond the advent of magnification. The collection illuminates connections between the empirical practices and technologies with which minutiae have come to be associated and the broader, more diffuse discoursesfrom the philosophical to the artisticthat have attended theories of smallness before and after Hooke's Micrographia. Placing essays on Renaissance poetry, Romantic fiction, and matters of punctuation alongside essays on early modern germ theory and the optics of microscopic technology, this rigorously framed volume extends from sixteenth-century pathology to twentieth-century architectural theory, natural science to literature and art.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.12.2024
• Co-Autor: Margareta Ingrid Christian, Carmen Schmechel, Marianne Schuller, Cynthia Wall, Elena Fabietti, Christopher Johnson, Dan Liu, Andreas Mahler, Roger Maioli, Malte Rauch, Hans-Jorg Rheinberger, Mareike Schildmann
• Zusatzinfo: 20 b&w illus, 1 table
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Auerbach • Cells • Contagion • corpuscular medical theories • Critical inquiry • Discovery • Disease • Early modern • Empiricism • Fermentation • ICI Berlin • intepretation • John Donne • Literary Theory • Method • micrology • Novalis • optical interpretation • parenthesis • particulate matter • Putrefaction • tiny things • Virology
• ISBN-10: 0-8139-5064-3 / 0813950643
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8139-5064-8 / 9780813950648