LEADER 00000cam a2200649 i 4500 001 on1007083893 003 OCoLC 005 20230729211125.0 006 m o d 007 cr |n|---||||| 008 171028s2017 ilu ob 001 0 eng d 016 7 018561716|2Uk 020 9780226500737|q(electronic book) 020 022650073X|q(electronic book) 020 |z9780226476124|q(hardcover) 020 |z022647612X|q(hardcover) 035 (OCoLC)1007083893 037 org.bibliovault.9780226500737|bBiblioVault 040 EBLCP|beng|erda|epn|cEBLCP|dIDEBK|dNLE|dOCLCQ|dOCLCO|dOCL |dOH1|dKSU|dRRP|dINT|dOCLCQ|dOCLCO|dUKMGB|dWYU|dU3W|dTKN |dOCLCQ|dN$T|dDEGRU|dOCLCO|dOCLCQ|dBRX 049 RIDW 050 4 Q125|b.Z353 2017 072 7 SCI|x063000|2bisacsh 082 04 507.2/2|223 084 TB 2280|2rvk 090 Q125|b.Z353 2017 100 1 Zakariya, Nasser,|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/ nb2011005777|eauthor. 245 12 A final story :|bscience, myth, and beginnings /|cNasser Zakariya. 264 1 Chicago, IL ;|aLondon :|bThe University of Chicago Press, |c2017. 264 4 |c©2017 300 1 online resource 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 347 text file|2rdaft 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Introduction -- Part I -- Varieties of Natural History : The Whole of the Natural and the Known -- Dogmas of Unity and Questions of Expertise -- The Many Faces of Force and the Mutability of Energy -- Schisms -- Part II -- Undoing and Reassembling Scales and Histories -- Other Emerging Genres of Synthesis : From the Fabulaic to the Foundational -- Humanisms, Nuclear Histories, and Nuclear Ages -- Scientific Myth and Mysticism -- Part III -- Scientific Tribes and Totalizing Myths -- Cosmos and the Structure of "Epic Myth" -- Political Cosmologies -- A New Version of Genesis -- Coda : Epic Humanisms. 520 A Final Story charts the formation and contestation of scientific universal histories from the nineteenth century to the present. It traces the emergence of the so-called "scientific epic," a story of "cosmic evolution" or a "new cosmic myth." The scientific epic is examined as a modern frame for synthesizing different branches of scientific knowledge according to a narrative, historical structure. The narrative is itself an instance of a "genre of synthesis," a mode of unification appealing to representations such as specific images, rhetorical figures, and other discursive devices to structure and organize scientific labor and research. Scientists, popularizers, and educators produced such representations of the material and organic origins of the cosmos, scientific universal histories attempting to provide a finalizing narrative true for every person and thing. A Final Story examines the resulting reconfigurations of humanist and natural philosophical categories of knowledge in a nineteenth-century European context and, thereafter, among a network of Anglo-American and émigré scholars in the twentieth century to the present. The study concludes with an emphasis on the synthetic scientific discourse and the documentary film tradition of scientific history from the second half of the twentieth century, with a view to the still more recent emergence of humanities-centered universalizing histories and a contemporary scientific myth. That myth institutes different devices for domesticating the expanse of universal history, for contending with conceptual tensions implicit and overt in the nature of its form, while positing a culturally charged and problematized species-voice. -- Provided by publisher 588 0 Print version record. 590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America 650 0 Science|xHistoriography.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ subjects/sh85118569 650 0 Science|xPhilosophy.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ subjects/sh85118582 650 7 Science|xHistoriography.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/ fast/1108259 650 7 Science|xPhilosophy.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/ 1108336 650 7 Science|xGeneral.|2bisacsh 650 7 Science|xHistory.|2bisacsh 650 7 Science|xAstrophysics & Space Science.|2bisacsh 650 7 History|xGeneral.|2bisacsh 650 7 SCIENCE|xStudy & Teaching.|2bisacsh 655 0 Electronic books. 776 08 |iPrint version:|aZakariya, Nasser.|tA Final Story : Science, Myth, and Beginnings.|dChicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2017|z9780226476124 856 40 |uhttps://rider.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site& db=nlebk&AN=1595752|zOnline ebook via EBSCO. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff. 856 42 |3Instructions for reading/downloading the EBSCO version of this ebook|uhttp://guides.rider.edu/ebooks/ebsco 901 MARCIVE 20231220 948 |d20230922|cEBSCO |tebscoebooksacademic NEW JULY Quarterly 6516|lridw 994 92|bRID