Life Sciences and Life Writing
Life Sciences and Life Writing
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生命科学和生活写作
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2015
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Alfred Hornung
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Alfred Hornung
最近将生命科学与生命写作的实践和研究结合起来的尝试依赖于关于生命的构成和概念的研究环境的改变的共同基础。医学人文学科和叙事医学等新的研究领域为跨学科合作开辟了道路，克服了 C. P. 斯诺关于两种不同文化的主张。科学家和作家都通过体验和描述有机生命的各个方面来了解人性，通常将其与动物行为进行比较，并对保护生物圈进行生态关注。在这一努力中，他们获得了新的知识体系并利用了叙事自我呈现的艺术。加拿大动物学家 David Suzuki、哈佛大学真菌学家 E. O. Wilson 和纽约小说家 Siri Hustvedt 的自传和自传小说中生命科学与生命写作的相互作用，涵盖从通过环境行动主义使用生命进化生物学模型到神经科学的见解。在所有情况下，科学和生活作家都认识到生活写作在出版物或电视上向更多受众展示科学思想的优势。 Alfred Hornung，美因茨大学 电子邮件：hornung@uni-mainz.de 生命科学和传记写作都是二十世纪下半叶进入学术界和大众视野的两种跨学科现象。作为新的研究和社会实践领域，它们源于英国科学家和小说家 C. P. 斯诺所说的知识生活分为两种文化：科学和人文的划分。 1959年，这位物理学家在剑桥大学的雷德演讲中引用了一个著名的例子，即大多数人对科学定律的无知，也无法描述热力学第二定律，对他来说，这相当于读了莎士比亚的戏剧，但在我们这个时代似乎仍然如此（Snow 1998：14-15）。因此，《传记：跨学科季刊》杂志的长期联合编辑克雷格·豪斯（Craig Howes）在 2012 年德国美国研究协会年会上以“美国生活”为主题，以以下轶事开始了他关于生命科学与生活写作结合的评论：DOI 10.1515/anglia-2015-0004 Anglia 2015, 133(1): 37–52
Recent attempts to combine the life sciences with the practice and study of life writing rely on the common basis of a changed research environment about the constitution and conception of life. New fields of research, such as the Medical Humanities and Narrative Medicine, chart the way for a cross-disciplinary cooperation, which overcomes C. P. Snow’s claim of two distinct cultures. Both scientists and writers experience and describe aspects of organic life to understand human nature, often in comparison to animal behavior, with an ecological concern for the preservation of the biosphere. In this endeavor they acquire new systems of knowledge and make use of the art of narrative self-presentation. The interaction of the life sciences and life writing in autobiographies and autobiographical fiction of the Canadian zoologist David Suzuki, the Harvard myrmecologist E. O. Wilson, and the New York novelist Siri Hustvedt ranges from the use of evolutionary biological models of life via environmental activism to the insights of neuroscience. In all instances, the science and life writers recognize the advantage of life writing for the presentation of scientific ideas to a larger audience in publications or on TV. Alfred Hornung, University of Mainz E-Mail: hornung@uni-mainz.de Both the life sciences and life writing are two interdisciplinary phenomena entering the academic and popular scene in the second half of the twentieth century. As new fields of research and social practice they emerge from what the British scientist and novelist C. P. Snow called the division of intellectual life into two cultures, the sciences and the humanities. The famous example cited in the physicist’s Rede lecture at Cambridge University in 1959 about the ignorance of most people of scientific laws and their inability to describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which for him was the equivalent to having read a play by Shakespeare, still seems to uphold in our time (Snow 1998: 14–15). Hence Craig Howes, long-time co-editor of the journal Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, opens his remarks about the combination of life sciences and life writing at the Annual Convention of the German Association for American Studies in 2012 on “American Lives”with the following anecdote: DOI 10.1515/anglia-2015-0004 Anglia 2015, 133(1): 37–52