Nietzsche and Transmodernism: Art and Science beyond the Modern in Joyce, Stevens, Pynchon, and Kubrick (2004)
Marvin, John (Author)
State University of New York at Buffalo
Conte, Joseph
Edition Details: Advisor: Conte, Joseph
Physical Details: 201 pp.
Language: English
Nietzsche philologist was educated to be a close reader of literature, language, and culture, and even the cosmos. At each level of criticism his questions led him to the next; literary, linguistic, social, and ultimately, cosmic. His aerie was built upon the summit of late 19{super}th{/super} century Western Culture, and from its height he believed he saw the beginning of a paradigm upon which to build another, perhaps better, at least civilized world view on the foundation of what he had learned from the glory of the Presocratic Greeks, the brilliance of the Renaissance, and the power of the means of discovery afforded by science, all under the guidance of art. I argue that Nietzsche's critical theory can be refined by updating to include 20{super}th{/super} century scientific developments; that some modernist artists seem to have been doing something like that updating in their work; that his ideas are reflected, whether by coincidence or design, in their work; and that science as reported in texts written by scientists for laymen, seems to be embarked upon a similar quest. The belief that art and science can, actually must, combine in order for humanity to survive the crises of the fall of the West and modernity is the foundation of what I call transmodernism. The three initial chapters concentrate on Nietzsche the critic: literary, cultural, and cosmic; Nietzsche's criticism and 20{super}th{/super} century science as parts of the rhetoric human survival; and the meaning of transmodernism relative to Nietzschean ideas. The final four chapters read four texts to show the development of Nietzschean ideas along with art and science through the 20{super}th{/super} century through modernism and postmodernism toward transmodernism. The texts read are {italic}Finnegans Wake{/italic} emphasizing James Joyce's "litter " leitmotif, Wallace Steven's {italic}Notes toward a Supreme Fiction, Gravity's Rainbow{/italic} and Thomas Pynchon's version of a many worlds interpretation of reality, and Stanley Kubrick's vision of human evolution as husbandry in {italic}2001: A Space Odyssey{/italic}.
...MoreDescription Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 65 (2005): 3801. UMI pub. no. 3150878.
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