Science and Literature
- ISBN-10
- 0838750516
- ISBN-13
- 9780838750513
- Category
- Literature and science
- Pages
- 186
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1983
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press
- Authors
- James M. Heath, Harry Raphael Garvin
Description
This issue explores the tensions between literature and the sciences, focusing on responses which see science as an alien ideology that threatens everything the arts hold dear, and on a more positive response that sees the sciences as providing new tools, viewpoints, and knowledge about the world.
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