Between Science and Literature: AN INTRODUCTION TO AUTOPOETICS

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Between Science and Literature an introduction to autopoetics ira livingston Foreword by N. Katherine Hayles UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS Urbana and Chicago 00.FM.i-xiv_Livi.indd฀฀฀3 9/27/05฀฀฀3:05:02฀PM © 2006 Ira Livingston All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America ฀∞ This book is printed on acid-free paper. 1฀ 2฀ 3฀ 4฀ 5฀ c฀ p฀ 5฀ 4฀ 3฀ 2฀ 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Livingston, Ira, 1956– Between science and literature: an introduction to autopoetics / Ira Livingston; foreword by N. Katherine Hayles. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn-13:฀978-0-252-03008-6฀(isbn-13/cloth: alk. paper) isbn-10:฀0-252-03008-7฀(isbn-10/cloth: alk. paper) isbn-13:฀978-0-252-07254-3฀(isbn-13/paper: alk. paper) isbn-10:฀0-252-07254-5฀(isbn-10/paper: alk. paper) 1. Literature—Philosophy. 2. Poetics. I. Title. pn49.l538฀ ฀ 2005 801—dc22฀ ฀ 2005006664 00.FM.i-xiv_Livi.indd฀฀฀4 9/27/05฀฀฀3:05:02฀PM As to those for whom to work hard, to begin and begin again, to attempt and to be mistaken, to go back and rework everything from top to bottom, and still find reason to hesitate from one step to the next—as to those, in short, for whom to work in the midst of uncertainty and apprehension is tantamount to failure, all I can say is that clearly we are not from the same planet. —Michel Foucault, The Use of Pleasure In a certain sense one cannot take too much care in handling philosophical mistakes, they contain so much truth. —Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Wittgenstein Reader 00.FM.i-xiv_Livi.indd฀฀฀5 9/27/05฀฀฀3:05:02฀PM 00.FM.i-xiv_Livi.indd฀฀฀6 9/27/05฀฀฀3:05:02฀PM ...