Overview
This book is inspired by the author's work as part of a major international and interdisciplinary research group at the University of Konstanz, Germany: ""What If-On the Meaning, Relevance, and Epistemology of Counterfactual Claims and Thought Experiments."" Having contributed to great discoveries, such as those by Galileo and Einstein, thought experiments are especially topical in the twenty-first century, since this is a concept that bridges the gap between the arts and the sciences, promoting interdisciplinary innovation. To study thought experiments in literature, it is imperative to examine relevant texts closely: this has rarely been done to date and this is precisely what this book does as a pilot study focusing on selected works of philosophy and literature. Specifically, thought experiments by Thomas Malthus are analyzed side by side with short stories and novels by Vladimir Odoevsky and Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Alexander Bogdanov and Aleksei Tolstoy, Alexander Chaianov and Nina Berberova.
Full Product Details
Author: Natasha Grigorian
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Imprint: Academic Studies Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 0.90cm
, Length: 23.30cm
ISBN: 9798887190556
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 02 March 2023
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Engagingly and clearly written, Visions of the Future represents an original approach to Russian utopian fiction and utopian fiction in general. This originality emerges primarily in the book's orientation to the strictly formal influence of counterfactual or hypothetical reasoning on the narrative strategies employed in utopian fiction, while its persuasive force lies in its careful account of well-chosen examples of this influence. - Jeff Love, Research Professor of German and Russian, Clemson University
Engagingly and clearly written, Visions of the Future represents an original approach to Russian utopian fiction and utopian fiction in general. This originality emerges primarily in the book's orientation to the strictly formal influence of counterfactual or hypothetical reasoning on the narrative strategies employed in utopian fiction, while its persuasive force lies in its careful account of well-chosen examples of this influence. -- Jeff Love, Research Professor of German and Russian, Clemson University
Author Information
Dr. Natasha GrigorianAssociate at the University of Konstanz.
