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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 
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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 
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650  0 Science|xHistoriography.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
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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/
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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 
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       restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, 
       and staff. 
856 42 |3Instructions for reading/downloading the EBSCO version 
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