Fiction refracts science modernist writers from Proust to Borges /
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : prefatory thoughts on two or more cultures
- What the modernists knew about the history of science from Pascal to Heisenberg
- Robert Musil and the dilemma of modernist epistemology
- Proust, Poincarβe, and contingency
- Kafka's search for laws
- James Joyce and the laws of everything
- Modernist thought experiments after Joyce
- Conclusion : science and postmodernity.