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(ENL499) -  Χάρης Χαραλάμπους

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In a lecture he delivered in 1959, titled "The Two Cultures," C. P. Snow stated that "the intellectual life of the whole of western society is increasingly being split into two polar groups," with "literary intellectuals at one pole—at the other scientists." Snow continued to assert that the two are separated by "a gulf of mutual incomprehension," even "hostility and dislike." But was he right? And if he was, to what extent? At about the same time, for one, Albert Einstein expressed a wish for a return back to Faraday's days, when "there did not yet exist the dull specialization that stares with self-conceit through hornrimmed glasses and destroys poetry." In a similar twist of thought, Niels Bohr stated that "We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry," and Werner Heisenberg repeatedly and insistently stressed that unphilosophical physics results in bad science. Through an examination of varied source texts, from different literary genres (i.e., poems, novels and plays) to cultural theory, philosophical prose and scientific discourse, this course seeks to deepen your understanding of the relationship between science and English literature in a period spanning the Romantic era and Postmodernism.

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Παρασκευή 7 Φεβρουαρίου 2020