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T1 The Experimental Re-enchantment of Postmodernist Fiction
A1 Klähn, Bernd
K1 física moderna temprana
K1 modos de abstracción
K1 imaginación postmodernista
K1 ficción
AB This article’s aim is to describe a plausible connection between classical forms of quantifiedworld-descriptions, especially in early modern physics, and the late response to these modesof world-reduction in postmodernist fiction. This article —working on two levels of analy-sis— will try to unveil a deep interconnection between the quantified reductionism of clas-sical sciences and elements of radical abstraction in postmodernist imagination. After aconcise inspection of Newtons’ Opticks, Galileo’s Discorsi and Descartes’ Discours, criticalattention will be focused on the narrative transfers, transformations, delimitations and—especially— iconic modes of (post)modern abstraction within postmodernist fiction. Theculminating point of this paper centers on the idea that occidental versions of quantifiedworldmaking do not follow a simple concept of structural and/or functional description butare deeply embedded in epistemological and aesthetic assumptions, derived from a Cartesianworldview and a very strict interpretation of an early modern believe in “mathesis universalis.”
PB Universidad de La Laguna. Servicio de Publicaciones
SN 2530-8335
YR 2005
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 18-abr-2024