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Toward a Dialogue of Understandings : Loren Eiseley and the Critique of Science
author
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Pitts, Mary Ellen.
publisher
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Lehigh University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0934223378
print isbn13
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9780934223379
ebook isbn13
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9780585188911
language
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English
subject
Eiseley, Loren C.,--1907-1977--Knowledge--Science, Literature and science--United States--History--20th century, Science--Historiography, Science in literature.
publication date
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1995
lcc
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PS3555.I78Z83 1995eb
ddc
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818.5409
subject
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Eiseley, Loren C.,--1907-1977--Knowledge--Science, Literature and science--United States--History--20th century, Science--Historiography, Science in literature.
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Toward a Dialogue of Understandings
Loren Eiseley and the Critique of Science Mary Ellen Pitts
Bethlehem: Lehigh University Press London: Associated University Presses
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1995 by Associated University Presses, Inc.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Pitts, Mary Ellen. Toward a dialogue of understandings: Loren Eiseley and the critique of science / Mary Ellen Pitts. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-934223-37-8 (alk. paper) 1. Eiseley, Loren C., 1907-1977KnowledgeScience. 2. Literature and scienceUnited StatesHistory20th century. 3. ScienceHistoriography. 4. Science in literature. I. Title. PS3555.I78Z83 1995 818.5409dc20 94-46994 CIP
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Contents
Abbreviations
7
Preface
9
Acknowledgments
13
1. The Scientist as Writer: Eiseley and the Ironic Imperative
17
2. A Route for Critique: Eiseley's Genre
50
3. The Need for the Hybrid Genre
94
4. The Genesis of Method I: Darwin's Century
109
5. The Genesis of Method II: The Immense Journey
144
6. The Move toward an Ironic View: The Firmament of Time
161
7. Reexamination of Science I: The Unexpected Universe
180
8. Reexamination of Science II: The Invisible Pyramid
228
9. The Self as a Vehicle for Understanding I: The Night Country
248
10. The Self as a Vehicle for Understanding II: All the Strange Hours
269
11. Margins of Humanism, Margins of Science: The Star Throwerand the Dialogue of Understandings
304
Notes
326
References
332
Index
341
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Eiseley's Texts and Abbreviations Used
Scholarship
Darwin's Century (1958)
DC
Collections of Popular Essays
The Immense Journey (1957)
IJ
The Firmament of Time (1960)
FT
The Unexpected Universe (1969)
UU
The Invisible Pyramid (1970)
IP
The Night Country (1971)
NC
The Man Who Saw Through Time (1973), originally published in 1962 as Francis Bacon and the Modern Dilemma
MWSTT
(FBMD)
The Star Thrower (1978)
ST
Darwin and the Mysterious Mr. X (1979; posthumous)
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