Robert J. Scholnick, ed., American Literature and Science
In: Nineteenth century prose, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 139-140
ISSN: 1052-0406
5654841 Ergebnisse
Sortierung:
In: Nineteenth century prose, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 139-140
ISSN: 1052-0406
In: Revista española de investigaciones sociológicas: ReiS, Heft 49, S. 259
ISSN: 1988-5903
In: Humanity & Society, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 135-146
ISSN: 2372-9708
In: Anglistik: international journal of English studies, Band 32, Heft 3, S. 121-134
ISSN: 2625-2147
In: PLOS ONE
'Public engagement with science' has become a 'buzzword' reflecting a concern about the widening gap between science and society and efforts to bridge this gap. This study is a comprehensive analysis of the development of the 'engagement' rhetoric in the pertinent academic literature on science communication and in science policy documents. By way of a content analysis of articles published in three leading science communication journals and a selection of science policy documents from the United Kingdom (UK), the United States of America (USA), the European Union (EU), and South Africa (SA), the variety of motives underlying this rhetoric, as well as the impact it has on science policies, are analyzed. The analysis of the science communication journals reveals an increasingly vague and inclusive definition of 'engagement' as well as of the 'public' being addressed, and a diverse range of motives driving the rhetoric. Similar observations can be made about the science policy documents. This study corroborates an earlier diagnosis that rhetoric is running ahead of practice and suggests that communication and engagement with clearly defined stakeholder groups about specific problems and the pertinent scientific knowledge will be a more successful manner of 'engagement'.
"Scientific progress is usually seen as a precondition of modern utopias, but science and utopia are frequently at odds. Utopian Literature and Science traces the interactions of sciences such as astronomy, microscopy, genetics and anthropology with 19th- and 20th-century utopian and dystopian writing and modern science fiction. Ranging from Galileo's observations with the telescope to current ideas of the post-human and the human-animal boundary, the author's re-examination of key literary texts brings a fresh perspective to the paradoxes of utopian thinking since Plato. This book is essential reading for teachers and students of literature and science studies, utopian studies, and science fiction studies, as well as students of 19th and early 20th-century literature more generally"--
The aim of this article is to show how the military rhetoric related to infection manifested itself in works of science and popular fiction of the late 18th century and early 19th century; how human bodies were perceived as battlefields on which the forces of infection and resistance fought; and finally, how similes taken from literary texts were used to show and explain the strategies infective agents employed to infiltrate and terrorise their unsuspecting victims. This paper focuses on scientific and literary texts which contain two examples of uses of bodies in this ideological war: similes of bodies as peculiar territories under external threat, and bodies as sources of contagion, smuggled across the borders of actual territories.
BASE
In: Telos, Heft 78, S. 117-123
ISSN: 0040-2842, 0090-6514
In: Nineteenth century prose, Band 42, Heft 1, S. 238-243
ISSN: 1052-0406
In: Evolutionary studies in imaginative culture, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 159-172
ISSN: 2472-9876
Abstract
This article describes a team-taught environmental studies course called Animal Metaphors. Focusing on animal metaphors in literature and film, the course emphasizes various cognitive and perceptual biases that lead humans to place ourselves above and beyond nature, making us more likely to engage in practices destructive to the environment. Whereas the first iteration of the course underscored various ways in which humans are less rational or moral than we imagine, the new iteration shifted more of the focus to what inspires and motivates humans, gives us emotional resilience, and best creates conditions for mental well-being as we cooperate and collaborate. This seemed an appropriate tack to take in an age commonly referred to as the "Anthropocene." We thus continued to examine our status as evolved animals while also calling more attention to spiritual or ecstatic experience, music, humor, and the uniquely human ability for shared intentionality.
In: Newsletter on science, technology, & human values, Band 3, Heft 3, S. 59-59
ISSN: 2328-2436
In: Utopian studies, Band 28, Heft 2, S. 370-374
ISSN: 2154-9648
In: Journal of European Studies, Band 23, Heft 3, S. 283-298
ISSN: 1740-2379
In: Metascience: an international review journal for the history, philosophy and social studies of science, Band 20, Heft 2, S. 325-328
ISSN: 1467-9981
In: University of North Carolina studies in Germanic languages and literatures