Interdisciplinarity and the Modern Paradox
Chaos across History, Philosophy, and Science
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Beschreibung
This groundbreaking book reposes the wicked problem of crossing modern binaries, such as humans and non-humans, nature and culture, technology and society, logic and sense, and thought and bodies. It does this by reconsidering modernity and its critique, not just across time and history, but also across space and disciplinarity.
Interdisciplinarity and the Modern Paradox double-crosses the mathematical, historical and philosophical phenomenon of ‘chaos’ from science to HASS; from HASS to science, which is not simply a reversal of the first translation, but reveals a distinct but intertwined translation problem across disciplines; and across two distinct but intertwined stories that each of these modern disciplines tell about their shared history: Descartes’ and Newton’s mechanics in classical natural philosophy.
This double-crossing across here and there, and now and then leads to a number of surprising findings: revealing a lost history of mathematics where modern mathematicians inexplicably forgot chaos as soon as they discovered it; an unmathematical translation of chaos in complexity theory that mathematicians disagree with; and a modern science and intellectual history that have never conformed to the philosophical notion of scientific determinism. Newton and Descartes never thought that laws or dualisms made mechanics or things predictable!
By describing how modern disciplines and their histories are still, and yet have never been, ‘modern’, which defines and demarcates science from HASS disciplines across history and disciplinarity, and across time and space, this surprising and engaging book is a must-read for interdisciplinary humanities and social science scholars, and for scholars concerned about rethinking the important, but surprisingly persistent and pervasive, modern paradoxes of humanism, naturalism, determinism, materiality, realism and representationalism.
Dr Fiona Druitt lives a double life across science and the humanities and social sciences (HASS). Dr Druitt holds an honours degree in science (mathematics and physics, with a mathematics thesis in nonlinear analysis) and a PhD in Arts, combining critical theory, continental philosophy, cultural studies and creative writing. She is currently a Research Fellow at The University of Melbourne in Australia.
This groundbreaking book reposes the wicked problem of crossing modern binaries, such as humans and non-humans, nature and culture, technology and society, logic and sense, and thought and bodies. It does this by reconsidering modernity and its critique, not just across time and history, but also across space and disciplinarity.
Interdisciplinarity and the Modern Paradox double-crosses the mathematical, historical and philosophical phenomenon of ‘chaos’ from science to HASS; from HASS to science, which is not simply a reversal of the first translation, but reveals a distinct but intertwined translation problem across disciplines; and across two distinct but intertwined stories that each of these modern disciplines tell about their shared history: Descartes’ and Newton’s mechanics in classical natural philosophy.
This double-crossing across here and there, and now and then leads to a number of surprising findings: revealing a lost history of mathematics where modern mathematicians inexplicably forgot chaos as soon as they discovered it; an unmathematical translation of chaos in complexity theory that mathematicians disagree with; and a modern science and intellectual history that have never conformed to the philosophical notion of scientific determinism. Newton and Descartes never thought that laws or dualisms made mechanics or things predictable!
By describing how modern disciplines and their histories are still, and yet have never been, ‘modern’, which defines and demarcates science from HASS disciplines across history and disciplinarity, and across time and space, this surprising and engaging book is a must-read for interdisciplinary humanities and social science scholars, and for scholars concerned about rethinking the important, but surprisingly persistent and pervasive, modern paradoxes of humanism, naturalism, determinism, materiality, realism and representationalism.
Re-frames and reposes the problem of being modern - of translating modern binaries Pioneers and performs a novel method for STEM-HASS interdisciplinarity, double-crossing Rethinks complexity theory and the history of mathematics by opening their enigmas onto one another
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Fiona Druitt
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modern paradox nonlinear research method complexity critique of being modern double-crossing interdisciplinarity chaos history of mathematics Science and Technology modern disciplines nonlinear dynamics materiality embodiment critique of postmodernism Newtonian mechanics