Storytelling in Science and Literature [Hardcover]

In this book, a gathering of exceptional thinkers from the sciences and the humanities engage a common theme: In what ways do language, and storytelling in particular, deal with ethics in science, in literature, or in other art forms?This gathering of eminent thinkers from the sciences and the humanities engages a common theme: In what ways does languageand storytelling in particulardeal with ethics in science, in literature, and in other art forms? Evelyn Fox Keller, Jean-Michel Rabat?, Mieke Bal, and Roald Hoffmann explore ways in which science and rhetoric, politics and fiction, science and storytelling, and ethics and aesthetics are deeply and creatively imbricated with each other, rather than distinct and autonomous.List of IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Beware the Jabberwock: A Cautionary Tale for Interdisciplinary TravelBy Margery Arent SafirChapter 1: Can the Circles of Language and Science Be Squared?By Evelyn Fox KellerChapter 2: White Lies: Plato, Nietzsche, and HollywoodBy Jean-Michel Rabat?Chapter 3: Honesty to the Singular ObjectBy Roald HoffmanChapter 4: The Ethics of StorytellingBy Mieke BalBibliographyIndexAbout the ContributorsIn this book a gathering of exceptional thinkers from the sciences and the humanities engage a common theme: In what ways do language, and storytelling in particular, deal with ethics in science, in literature, or in other art forms? Evelyn Fox Keller, Jean-Michel Rabat?, Mieke Bal, and Roald Hoffmann argue against the facile assumption that science and rhetoric, politics and fiction, science and storytelling, or ethics and aesthetics are distinct and autonomous.Margery Arent Safir is founder and executive director of the Arts Arena and professor of comparative literature emerita at the American University of Paris.