Mediating Order and Chaos: The Water-cycle in the Complex Adaptive Systems of Romantic CultureRodopi, 2001 - 349 páginas This literature-centered study offers an interdisciplinary approach to Romantic culture. If is pioneering in that it employs the complexity method of anthropology. Recent literary studies employ the complexity/chaos theory adapted from the natural sciences; however, here is presented for the first time a complexity method taken from the social/human sciences. This complexity method is useful in mediating not only contradictions within Romanticism, but the chaos of contemporary theories concerning it. One of the intensifying literary debates is that between the so-called "Greens" and "Reds," naturalists and humanists. Mediating Order and Chaos not only traces the split between nature and man to Romantic Culture but finds there, too, a Spinozian vision of man and nature in unity - thereby denying any naturalist/humanist split. This volume is of interest for those who wish to see essays in the holistic approach to culture. Centering on hydraulics, hydrology, and meteorology, this study examines literature, painting, music, economics, and the rhetoric of science, philosophy, and politics, it therewith demonstrates how the water cycle was transformed into a cosmic metaphor that mediated, in the form of several complex adaptive systems, between the chaos of too much change and that of not enough. |
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... writes : " Very seldom is a person seen or de- scribed in isolation , just as in real life human beings cannot be divorced from the infinite number of animate and inanimate phenomena which make them what they are and determine what they ...
... writes : " Very seldom is a person seen or de- scribed in isolation , just as in real life human beings cannot be divorced from the infinite number of animate and inanimate phenomena which make them what they are and determine what they ...
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... writes that 16 Chaos theory , the study of ' determinate indeterminacy , ' provides us with a model with which we can conceptualize [ ... ] flux and indeterminacy . [ ... ] From the standpoint of chaos theory , the limits to our ability ...
... writes that 16 Chaos theory , the study of ' determinate indeterminacy , ' provides us with a model with which we can conceptualize [ ... ] flux and indeterminacy . [ ... ] From the standpoint of chaos theory , the limits to our ability ...
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... writes : ' Philosophically , of course , it was Spinoza who served as the chief intellectual sup- port for the development of such proto - ecological views as Wordsworth espoused ' . Spinoza directly and indirectly influenced Romantic ...
... writes : ' Philosophically , of course , it was Spinoza who served as the chief intellectual sup- port for the development of such proto - ecological views as Wordsworth espoused ' . Spinoza directly and indirectly influenced Romantic ...
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... writes : ' Halley was the first to connect the general circulation of the atmosphere with the distribution of the sun's heat over the earth's surface . The sun is important to the theory of rain in that it is the prime motive force for ...
... writes : ' Halley was the first to connect the general circulation of the atmosphere with the distribution of the sun's heat over the earth's surface . The sun is important to the theory of rain in that it is the prime motive force for ...
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... writes , The insight chaos science gives us [ ... ] is that our inability to predict the weather is not a reflection of our limited ability to gather relevant data , but a fundamental fact of nonlinear dynamic systems . No matter how ...
... writes , The insight chaos science gives us [ ... ] is that our inability to predict the weather is not a reflection of our limited ability to gather relevant data , but a fundamental fact of nonlinear dynamic systems . No matter how ...
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Mediating Order and Chaos: The Water-Cycle in the Complex Adaptive Systems ... Rodney Farnsworth Pré-visualização limitada - 2021 |
Mediating Order and Chaos: The Water-cycle in the Complex Adaptive Systems ... Rodney Farnsworth Pré-visualização indisponível - 2001 |
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Abrams allegorical artist aspect Baroque Byron Caspar David Friedrich century chaos chapter Classicism clouds Coleridge complexity theory concept Constable context cosmic create cycle described Dorothea Duddon elements employed eternal falls Faust flow flux fountain French Revolution Friedrich glacier Goethe Goethe's Hermann and Dorothea Hugo Hugo's human hydrological-cycle hydrology imagery Jane Austen Kenneth Clark lake Lamartine landscape Lansing lines lyric Mary Shelley metaphor mind mist Mont Blanc movement nature Neoclassical Neoclassicism ocean offers painters painting paradox passage permanence in change persona poem poet poet's poetic poetry political quarter rain rendered represent rhetoric river River Duddon rocks Romantic culture Romanticism scene scientific seems sense Shelley Shelley's significant sonnet spring stanza Stolberg Storm and Stress stream suggest symbol term topographical treated Turner Vaughan vision water images water phenomena water-cycle waterfall waves Weimar Classicism Werther Wordsworth world view York
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Romanticism: Comparative Discourses Larry H. Peer,Diane Long Hoeveler Pré-visualização indisponível - 2006 |