Goethe, Chaos and Complexity.

ROWLAND, HERBERT [ED.].

ISBN 10: 9042015667 / ISBN 13: 9789042015661

Published by Amsterdam-Atlanta, Rodopi. 2001, 2001

About this Item

Original publisher's sewn paperback, pictorial frontcover, large 8vo: xviij, [ij], 202pp., illustrations, 11 contributions, footnotes, references, discussion, bibliography. Very fine copy - as new., Volume 55: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Goethe, Chaos and Complexity.
• Publisher: Amsterdam-Atlanta, Rodopi. 2001
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9042015667
• ISBN 13: 9789042015661
• Binding: Soft cover

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Synopsis

The present volume is the first to address the interrelationship between Goethe’s scientific thought and work, his ideas on art and literary oeuvre, and chaos and complexity theories. The eleven studies assembled in it treat one or more elements or aspects of this interrelationship, ranging from basic concepts all the way to a model of an aesthetic-scientific methodology. In the process, the authors scrutinize chaos and complexity both as motif and motor of literary texts and nature within various contexts of past and present. The volume should be of interest to literary scholars, scientists, and philosophers of science, indeed, to all those who are interested in the continuities between the humanities and sciences, culture and nature.