Essays in this volume demonstrate how science fiction can serve as a bridge between science and the humanities. Essays are arranged chronologically and form a historical survey of science fiction, showing how early writers like Dante and Mary Shelley revealed a gradual shift toward a genuine understanding of science; how H.G. Wells first showed the possibilities of a literature...(展开全部)

The notion that our society, its education system and its intellectual life, is characterised by a split between two cultures - the arts or humanities on one hand and the sciences on the other - has a long history. But it was C. P. Snow's Rede lecture of 1959 that brought it to prominence and began a public debate that is still raging in the media today. This fiftieth anniversa...(展开全部)

查尔斯·珀西·斯诺，（Charles Percy Snow，1905年10月15日－1980年7月1日），科学家，小说家。

著者：埃里克·坎德尔（Eric R. Kandel），1929年出生于奥地利维也纳。1952年本科毕业于哈佛大学历史与文学专业，1956年在纽约大学获得医学博士学位，目前担任美国哥伦比亚大学教授和霍华德·休斯医学研究所资深研究员。他一生致力于神经科学的前沿研究，因在记忆存储的神经机制研究中作出重大贡献，于2000年获得诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。 译者：喻柏雅，科普作者，作品见于《读库》《南方周末》《新京报》等；译有埃里克·坎德尔的系列作品，已经出版的有《追寻记忆的痕迹：新心智科学的开创历程》与本书。

In this new book, neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel, whose remarkable scientific career and deep interest in art give him a unique perspective, demonstrates how science can inform the way we experience a work of art and seek to understand its meaning.

著者：埃里克·坎德尔（Eric R. Kandel），1929年出生于奥地利维也纳。1952年本科毕业于哈佛大学历史与文学专业，1956年在纽约大学获得医学博士学位，目前担任美国哥伦比亚大学教授和霍华德·休斯医学研究所资深研究员。他一生致力于神经科学的前沿研究，因在记忆存储的神经机制研究中作出重大贡献，于2000年获得诺贝尔生理学或医学奖。 译者：喻柏雅，科普作者，作品见于《读库》《南方周末》《新京报》等；译有埃里克·坎德尔的系列作品，已经出版的有《追寻记忆的痕迹：新心智科学的开创历程》与本书。

In this new book, neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel, whose remarkable scientific career and deep interest in art give him a unique perspective, demonstrates how science can inform the way we experience a work of art and seek to understand its meaning.

In Science Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction, Quentin Meillassoux addresses the problem of chaos and of the constancy of natural laws in the context of literature. With his usual argumentative rigor, he elucidates the distinction between science fiction, a genre in which science remains possible in spite of all the upheavals that may attend the world in which the tale takes pla...(展开全部)

In Science Fiction and Extro-Science Fiction, Quentin Meillassoux addresses the problem of chaos and of the constancy of natural laws in the context of literature. With his usual argumentative rigor, he elucidates the distinction between science fiction, a genre in which science remains possible in spite of all the upheavals that may attend the world in which the tale takes pla...(展开全部)

理查德·E.李（Richard E. Lee），费尔南德· 布罗代尔中心副主任，宾汉姆顿大学社会学副教授。著有《文化研究的生命与时代：知识结构的政治与变革》（Life and Times of Cultural Studies: The Politics and Transformationof the Structures of Knowledge）。 伊曼努尔·沃勒斯坦（Immanuel Wallerstein，1930—2019），美国社会学家，耶鲁大学高级研究员，曾任国际社会学协会主席，以提出“世界体系理论”著称。著有《现代世界体系（四卷）》（The Modern World-System）。