When Ursula K.Heise's now canonic text Sense of Place and Sense of Planet:The Environmental Imagination of the Global was first published in 2008,I was a doctoral student at SUNY Stony Brook writing seminar papers...When Ursula K.Heise's now canonic text Sense of Place and Sense of Planet:The Environmental Imagination of the Global was first published in 2008,I was a doctoral student at SUNY Stony Brook writing seminar papers on Victorian perspectives of nature.In that second wave of Anglophone ecocriticism,those of us working in the newly incubated environmental humanities were thrilled to engage with the wide-ranging scope of Heise's book,whose aims included the theorization and revisioning of cultural and political attachments to planetary notions of place.展开更多
In Bachelard＇s thought, the understanding ＂of the other＂ in scientific thought is given usually by means of empirical or rational discourse. However, it is not unusual to realize the emphasis of scientific thought ...In Bachelard＇s thought, the understanding ＂of the other＂ in scientific thought is given usually by means of empirical or rational discourse. However, it is not unusual to realize the emphasis of scientific thought as rationally justifiable. Certainly, the dynamics of scientific thought throughout history has not been indifferent to other possibilities of epistemological construction. We cannot escape the facts： Science needs linguistic devices to strengthen its principles and criteria for validation. The aim of this paper is to answer, based on a new conception of metaphor, under what conditions metaphor can be a ＂physical metaphor＂ and the extent to which the symbolism in general brings a special light gain of sense to the understanding of physical reality that surrounds us.展开更多
文摘When Ursula K.Heise's now canonic text Sense of Place and Sense of Planet:The Environmental Imagination of the Global was first published in 2008,I was a doctoral student at SUNY Stony Brook writing seminar papers on Victorian perspectives of nature.In that second wave of Anglophone ecocriticism,those of us working in the newly incubated environmental humanities were thrilled to engage with the wide-ranging scope of Heise's book,whose aims included the theorization and revisioning of cultural and political attachments to planetary notions of place.
文摘In Bachelard＇s thought, the understanding ＂of the other＂ in scientific thought is given usually by means of empirical or rational discourse. However, it is not unusual to realize the emphasis of scientific thought as rationally justifiable. Certainly, the dynamics of scientific thought throughout history has not been indifferent to other possibilities of epistemological construction. We cannot escape the facts： Science needs linguistic devices to strengthen its principles and criteria for validation. The aim of this paper is to answer, based on a new conception of metaphor, under what conditions metaphor can be a ＂physical metaphor＂ and the extent to which the symbolism in general brings a special light gain of sense to the understanding of physical reality that surrounds us.
