The outdating of classical physics and the ever more sophisticated conceptualisation of bio-complexity has caused the rectilinear diagram of the cause-effect relationship to be substituted by a more ramified combinatory logic, which not only takes into account uniformity, but also chance. The poetic of some important writers of the XXth Century (Pirandello, Svevo, Calvino, Primo Levi, Gadda...) shows that in the wake of the theory of bio-complexity there arises even in the terrain of the humanities that "challenge to the maze" that leads to "ask literature for something more than the understanding of the epoch or a mimesis of the external aspects of the objects or of the internal features of the human soul. We want from literature a cosmic image […], that is to say up to the level of the planes of knowledge that historical development has brought into play" (I. Calvino).
Battistini A. (2008). From the Deterministic Chain to the Open, Dynamic Web. BOLOGNA : Bononia University Press.
From the Deterministic Chain to the Open, Dynamic Web
BATTISTINI, ANDREA
2008
Abstract
The outdating of classical physics and the ever more sophisticated conceptualisation of bio-complexity has caused the rectilinear diagram of the cause-effect relationship to be substituted by a more ramified combinatory logic, which not only takes into account uniformity, but also chance. The poetic of some important writers of the XXth Century (Pirandello, Svevo, Calvino, Primo Levi, Gadda...) shows that in the wake of the theory of bio-complexity there arises even in the terrain of the humanities that "challenge to the maze" that leads to "ask literature for something more than the understanding of the epoch or a mimesis of the external aspects of the objects or of the internal features of the human soul. We want from literature a cosmic image […], that is to say up to the level of the planes of knowledge that historical development has brought into play" (I. Calvino).I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.