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Explores the science and creative process behind Poe's cosmological treatise.

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Author:   David N. Stamos
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438463919

ISBN 10:   143846391
Pages:   602
Publication Date:   01 March 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Sources 1. Prologue Entree Summaries Discovering Poe Poe's House of Usher Poe's Poiesis 2. Poe's Literary Theory Entree The Problem Pleasure, Plot, and Unity of Effect Eureka as a ""Prose Poem"" 3. Poe's Theology Entree Poe's Theology and the Problem of Evil Artistic Sensitivity and Poe's View of the World The Argument from Beauty The Problem of Pain The Problem of Death Beauty and Hope 4. Poe's Intellectual Background Entree Poe's Formal Education ""Pinakidia"" The Conchologist's First Book ""A on Science and Art"" The Bridgewater Treatises Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Poe's Scientific Sources for Eureka Poe's Criteria of Truth Was Eureka a Hoax? 5. The Scientific Anticipations of Eureka Entree Rejection of Axioms as Intuitively True Big Bang Cosmogony Fine-Tuning of the Laws of Nature Non-Existence of Laws of Nature Before the Big Bang Olbers' Paradox Multiverse Theory Space-Time Interdependence Matter-Energy Equivalence No Material Ether 6. Imagination in Philosophy and History of Science Entree Philosophy of Science in Poe's Time Logical Positivism Logical Empiricism Karl Popper Thomas Kuhn The New Experimentalism The Disunity of Science Movement Inference to the Best Explanation Epistemic Virtues and Values Evolutionary Epistemology Contextualist History of Science Charles Darwin Albert Einstein Mutation and Imagination, an Analogy 7. Poe's Theory of Scientific Imagination Entree Double Consciousness Mesmeric Consciousness Lunatics, Lovers, and Poets Kepler, Champollion, and Humboldt Leibniz, Newton, and Laplace Poe's ""Double Dupin"" Against Deduction and Induction The Poetic Intellect 8. Epilogue Entree Unconscious Scientific Creativity Comparative Biography and Psychology Cognitive Science Neuroscience Evolution Adieu Index"

Reviews

Edgar Allan Poe, Eureka, and Scientific Imagination is the most comprehensive treatment of Eureka that has yet been published. It is staggeringly thorough in its analysis of Poe's book, but it also shows how Poe's theories of cosmogony and cosmology ramify into his fiction and poetry, especially the tales of ratiocination. Stamos takes Eureka seriously, and he does so with the empirical undergirding of vast amounts of scientific scholarship and literary criticism. - James M. Hutchisson, author of Poe

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David N. Stamos teaches philosophy at York University in Toronto. He is the author of several books, including Darwin and the Nature of Species, also published by SUNY Press.

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