TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grigorian, Natasha
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023//
TI  - Visions of the Future: Malthusian Thought Experiments in Russian Literature (1840–1960)
T3  - Studies in Comparative Literature and Intellectual History
PB  - Academic Studies Press
CY  - Boston, MA
KW  - Dystopias in literature
KW  - Future, The, in literature
KW  - Russian literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Thought experiments
KW  - Utopias in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature
AB  - This book is inspired by the author’s work as part of a major international and interdisciplinary research group at the University of Konstanz, Germany: “What If-On the Meaning, Relevance, and Epistemology of Counterfactual Claims and Thought Experiments.” Having contributed to great discoveries, such as those by Galileo and Einstein, thought experiments are especially topical in the twenty-first century, since this is a concept that bridges the gap between the arts and the sciences, promoting interdisciplinary innovation. To study thought experiments in literature, it is imperative to examine relevant texts closely: this has rarely been done to date and this is precisely what this book does as a pilot study focusing on selected works of philosophy and literature. Specifically, thought experiments by Thomas Malthus are analyzed side by side with short stories and novels by Vladimir Odoevsky and Nikolai Chernyshevsky, Alexander Bogdanov and Aleksei Tolstoy, Alexander Chaianov and Nina Berberova
SN  - 9798887190563
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9798887190563
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9798887190563/original
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9798887190563
DO  - 10.1515/9798887190563
LA  - English
N1  - Natasha Grigorian
ID  - 1847913695
ER  -