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T1 World into Calculus: The Reduction of Reality in the English Detective Novel of the 19th Century
A1 Klein, Herbert S.
K1 ciencia
K1 cálculo
K1 novela de detectives
AB The idea of subjecting the whole material world to calculation as hatched in the work ofDescartes and Bacon became the dominant scientific dogma in the 19th century. It wasextended to the working of the mind by the logician George Boole and the inventor CharlesBabbage. At the same time there arises a new literary genre: the detective novel. The prereq-uisite for its success is the absolutely deterministic construction of the world which permitsthe total reduction of every effect to its causes. The detective novel thus mirrors the effortsto completely control the world through calculus.
PB Universidad de La Laguna. Servicio de Publicaciones
SN 2530-8335
YR 2005
FD 2005
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 25-abr-2024