6 | 2006
Science et littérature
It is tempting to oppose science and literature, insofar as they arise a priori from incomparable—even incompatible—aims and procedures. In this way science would correspond with a search for the truth, proceeding through the deductive rigor of demonstration or the very controlled elaboration of experimental protocols for theory-verification. Literature, by contrast, would trace back to the free deployment of imaginary spaces produced by a stylistic elaboration of reality, with no other assignable end than the formal beauty of pure textual constructions and the pleasure they can evoke in the reader.
Rather than seek to reinforce this abstract opposition (which undoubtedly stems from a historical and institutional construction) the present issue endeavors to put literary and scientific practices into direct confrontation—not with a view to confounding them by annulling their specificities, but with a view to revealing their necessary interaction. It is no more the case that scientific discourses are elaborated independently of rhetorical and poetic models (to which, however, they cannot be reduced) than it is the case that literary texts are written in total isolation from the theoretical and practical concerns of science and its specific aim of truth. Based on the work of Fernand Hallyn, Pierre Macherey insists on the importance of studying the “rhetorical structures of science” which—by associating an epistemological approach with a poetic approach to truth-production—will allow for a profound renewal in our understanding of scientific work.
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Science et littérature
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Une poétique de la science [Full text]Fernand Hallyn, Les structures rhétoriques de la science de Kepler à Maxwell (éd. du Seuil, coll. Des Travaux, 2004)
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Le beau et le vrai [Full text]A propos de La vie des abeilles de Maeterlinck
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Les deux visages de la science [Full text]Réflexions à partir de l’œuvre d’Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam
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Analyses et interprétations
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Formation et réception du comput patristique
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Comptes rendus
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Constellations de l’étrangeté [Full text]Penser l’autrement de la généalogie
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Actes du Colloque organisé à la Fondation Singer- Polignac (Paris) le mercredi 20 octobre 2004 édités par Max Lejbowicz, Turnhout, Brepols, 2005
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Travaux
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Publications 2005 [Full text]
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Colloques et Journées d'études (année 2005-2006) [Full text]
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Thèses de doctorat soutenues [Full text]
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