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Karl S. Guthke «The Last Frontier: Imagining Other Worlds, from the Copernican Revolution to Modern Science Fiction»


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The Last Frontier: Imagining Other Worlds, from the Copernican Revolution to Modern Science Fiction

Язык издания: английский

Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1990 г.

Тираж: не указан

ISBN: 0-8014-1680-9

Тип обложки: твёрдая + суперобложка

Формат: другой

Страниц: 416

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Cover art by Kat Dalton.

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  1. Karl S. Guthke. The Last Frontier: Imagining Other Worlds, from the Copernican Revolution to Modern Science Fiction (монография, перевод H. Atkins)


    1. Preface, c. ix-xii
    2. Translator’s Note, c. xiii-xiii
    3. 1.Introduction: “Are We Alone?”, c. 1-42
      1. The Plurality of Worlds in Modern Science
      2. Philosophical Perspectives of Modern Science
      3. Science Fiction and the “Myth of the Modern Age”
      4. Antecedents
    4. 2.The Renaissance: Science Falls from Grace, c. 43-111
      1. The Scientific Validation of the “Plurality” Idea by Copernicanism
      2. Cautious Explorations: Montaigne and Benedetti
      3. “New Science” and the Visionary: Bruno
      4. Disquiet in the “School of Night”: Hill
      5. Reason Speaking True Words in Jest: Kepler
      6. The Telescope Frees the Imagination: Galileo
      7. Literary “Mysteries of the Heavens”: Kepler at the Telescope
    5. 3.The Baroque Period: Between Heresy and Piety, c. 112-198
      1. Bafflement, Orthodoxy, Half-heartedness, and Fervor: Donne, Pascal, Kircher, Gryphius, Milton, and Others
      2. A Voice from the Dungeons of the Inquisition: Campanella
      3. Two Bishops on the Moon: Wilkins and Godwin
      4. Pious Atomists: More, Borel, Gassendi, and Guericke
      5. The Risk of Reasoning: Descartes and Cyrano de Bergerac
    6. 4.The Enlightenment: Man as “the Measure of All Things”?, c. 199-323
      1. “Coming of Age”: Triumph and Trauma
      2. Authorities in Conflict: Fontenelle and Huygens
      3. In Newton’s Train: Bentley, Bolingbroke, Leibniz, Wolff, Wright, Kant, Herder, Bonnet, Swedenborg, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Bode, and Others
      4. Space Voyages in the Novel and Epic: Morris, Kindermann, Wilson, Klopstock, Wieland, Swift, Voltaire, and Others
      5. Variations in Lyric Poetry from Brockes to Schiller
      6. Recantation: The Universe “Within”
    7. 5.Modern Times: Man and Superman – The Origin of Species in the Cosmos, с. 324-392
      1. From Metaphysics to the Science of Evolution: Chalmers, Whewell, Brewster, Flammarion, and Others
      2. The “Struggle for Existence in the Heavens” and the New Anthropocentrism: Du Prel, Lowell, Wallace, and Others
      3. Novels at the Turn of the Century: The End of the World – the Future of Mankind
      4. Invasion Inspiring Hope or Fear: Lasswitz and Wells
    8. Index, с. 393-402

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