William Paulson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3683699 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Paulson |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Paulson |
| SIGNATURE | PAULSON W |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9643-5441 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Noise of Culture: Literary Texts in a World of Information
He concludes that literature functions as the noise of culture, a source of variety in the circulation and production of ideas and a rich and indeterminate margin through which messages are sent and transformed
Forty Years
Come Rain or Shine
Lui: So, Mr. Scholar-Critic, you say you've lost interest in the usual questions of your discipline? Bravo, I'm all for being undisciplined—but tell me then, what are the questions that fascinate you
Intellectuals
Dictionaries define the noun intellectuel as a person devoted by profession or taste to the exercise of intelligence, to the life of the mind. Yet the word - in both French and English - has a more specific meaning that, while widely recognised, almost never makes it into these definitions: that of a person of recognised intellectual attainments who speaks out in the public arena, generally in ways that call established society or dominant ideolo…
For a Cosmopolitical Philology: Lessons from Science Studies
SubStance - Issue 96 (Volume 30, Number 3), 2001
Michel Serres's Utopia of Language
Configurations - Volume 8, Number 2, Spring 2000
The Troubadour of Knowledge
In this wide-ranging meditation on learning and difference, Serres explores numerous pathways in philosophy, science, and literature to argue that the best contemporary education requires knowledge of both science's general truths and literature's singular stories. He heralds a new pedagogy, which claims that from the crossbreeding of the humanities and the sciences a new educational ideal can be born: the troubadour of knowledge.
Writing That Matters
Etude des intersections entre la litterature et la philosophie etablies par M. Serres a partir de la connexion entropie-information qui definit la connaissance scientifique, d'une part, et a partir de l'analogie entre les formes et les pratiques du connaitre (scientifique, narrative, discursive), d'autre part. Soulevant la question des relations asymetriques entre l'auteur et le lecteur, l'A. montre que la defense ethique de la culture humaniste …
Science and the Humanities: The Case of Turner
Michel Serres, Catherine Brown, William Paulson, Science and the Humanities: The Case of Turner, SubStance, Vol. 26, No. 2, Issue 83: An Ecology of Knowledge: Michel Serres: A Special Issue (1997), pp. 6-21
The natural contract
Chance, Complexity, and Narrative Explanation
Human activities might be classified according to the number of words that they require; the more words there are, the worse case their character is in. All the knowledge by means of which our species has advanced from dressing in skins to flying through the air--with its proofs, all complete-would fill no more than the shelves of a small reference library, whereas a bookcase the size of the earth itself would be utterly insufficient to hold all …
Literature, Knowledge, and Cultural Ecology
THE STUDY OF LITERATURE AND KNOWLEDGE, if it succeeds in coming into being, will take place in a biospheric, technological, economic, and cultural environment, from which it will draw its resources and on which it will produce its effects. This situation of intellectual activity in a complex and multilayered environment will be referred to here as cultural ecology. By this term I mean to point to the networks of relations by which human activity …
Savoirs a l'oeuvre. Essais d'epistemocritique
Computers, Minds, and Texts: Preliminary Reflections
the Delphic and Socratic injunction to Know thyself, one must face a double challenge of reflexivity and complexity: the mind is at once subject and object of knowledge, and the mind as object to be known is as rich in structure and variety as the mind as knowing subject. Attempts to know the mind thus proceed by detours, by exteriorizations, by models that simplify in the interest of gaining partial, figural insights. In this respect the study o…
The Noise of Culture: Literary Texts in a World of Information
Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the Blind in France
Paulson examines literary, philosophical, and pedagogical writing on blindness in France from the Enlightenment, when philosophical speculation and surgical cures for cataracts demystified the difference between the blind and the sighted, to the nineteenth century, when the literary figure of the blind bard or seer linked blindness with genius, madness, and narrative art. A major theme of the book is the effect of blindness on the use of language…
Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the Blind in France
Paulson examines literary, philosophical, and pedagogical writing on blindness in France from the Enlightenment, when philosophical speculation and surgical cures for cataracts demystified the difference between the blind and the sighted, to the nineteenth century, when the literary figure of the blind bard or seer linked blindness with genius, madness, and narrative art. A major theme of the book is the effect of blindness on the use of language…
For a Cosmopolitical Philology: Lessons from Science Studies
SubStance - Issue 96 (Volume 30, Number 3), 2001
Science and the Humanities: The Case of Turner
Michel Serres, Catherine Brown, William Paulson, Science and the Humanities: The Case of Turner, SubStance, Vol. 26, No. 2, Issue 83: An Ecology of Knowledge: Michel Serres: A Special Issue (1997), pp. 6-21
The Noise of Culture: Literary Texts in a World of Information
He concludes that literature functions as the noise of culture, a source of variety in the circulation and production of ideas and a rich and indeterminate margin through which messages are sent and transformed
Michel Serres's Utopia of Language
Configurations - Volume 8, Number 2, Spring 2000
Writing That Matters
Etude des intersections entre la litterature et la philosophie etablies par M. Serres a partir de la connexion entropie-information qui definit la connaissance scientifique, d'une part, et a partir de l'analogie entre les formes et les pratiques du connaitre (scientifique, narrative, discursive), d'autre part. Soulevant la question des relations asymetriques entre l'auteur et le lecteur, l'A. montre que la defense ethique de la culture humaniste …
Computers, Minds, and Texts: Preliminary Reflections
the Delphic and Socratic injunction to Know thyself, one must face a double challenge of reflexivity and complexity: the mind is at once subject and object of knowledge, and the mind as object to be known is as rich in structure and variety as the mind as knowing subject. Attempts to know the mind thus proceed by detours, by exteriorizations, by models that simplify in the interest of gaining partial, figural insights. In this respect the study o…
Enlightenment, Romanticism, and the Blind in France
Paulson examines literary, philosophical, and pedagogical writing on blindness in France from the Enlightenment, when philosophical speculation and surgical cures for cataracts demystified the difference between the blind and the sighted, to the nineteenth century, when the literary figure of the blind bard or seer linked blindness with genius, madness, and narrative art. A major theme of the book is the effect of blindness on the use of language…
Computers, Minds, and Texts: Preliminary Reflections
the Delphic and Socratic injunction to Know thyself, one must face a double challenge of reflexivity and complexity: the mind is at once subject and object of knowledge, and the mind as object to be known is as rich in structure and variety as the mind as knowing subject. Attempts to know the mind thus proceed by detours, by exteriorizations, by models that simplify in the interest of gaining partial, figural insights. In this respect the study o…
The Noise of Culture: Literary Texts in a World of Information
Savoirs a l'oeuvre. Essais d'epistemocritique
Literature, Knowledge, and Cultural Ecology
THE STUDY OF LITERATURE AND KNOWLEDGE, if it succeeds in coming into being, will take place in a biospheric, technological, economic, and cultural environment, from which it will draw its resources and on which it will produce its effects. This situation of intellectual activity in a complex and multilayered environment will be referred to here as cultural ecology. By this term I mean to point to the networks of relations by which human activity …
Chance, Complexity, and Narrative Explanation
Human activities might be classified according to the number of words that they require; the more words there are, the worse case their character is in. All the knowledge by means of which our species has advanced from dressing in skins to flying through the air--with its proofs, all complete-would fill no more than the shelves of a small reference library, whereas a bookcase the size of the earth itself would be utterly insufficient to hold all …
The natural contract
The Troubadour of Knowledge
In this wide-ranging meditation on learning and difference, Serres explores numerous pathways in philosophy, science, and literature to argue that the best contemporary education requires knowledge of both science's general truths and literature's singular stories. He heralds a new pedagogy, which claims that from the crossbreeding of the humanities and the sciences a new educational ideal can be born: the troubadour of knowledge.
Writing That Matters
Etude des intersections entre la litterature et la philosophie etablies par M. Serres a partir de la connexion entropie-information qui definit la connaissance scientifique, d'une part, et a partir de l'analogie entre les formes et les pratiques du connaitre (scientifique, narrative, discursive), d'autre part. Soulevant la question des relations asymetriques entre l'auteur et le lecteur, l'A. montre que la defense ethique de la culture humaniste …
Science and the Humanities: The Case of Turner
Michel Serres, Catherine Brown, William Paulson, Science and the Humanities: The Case of Turner, SubStance, Vol. 26, No. 2, Issue 83: An Ecology of Knowledge: Michel Serres: A Special Issue (1997), pp. 6-21
Michel Serres's Utopia of Language
Configurations - Volume 8, Number 2, Spring 2000
Intellectuals
Dictionaries define the noun intellectuel as a person devoted by profession or taste to the exercise of intelligence, to the life of the mind. Yet the word - in both French and English - has a more specific meaning that, while widely recognised, almost never makes it into these definitions: that of a person of recognised intellectual attainments who speaks out in the public arena, generally in ways that call established society or dominant ideolo…
For a Cosmopolitical Philology: Lessons from Science Studies
SubStance - Issue 96 (Volume 30, Number 3), 2001
Come Rain or Shine
Lui: So, Mr. Scholar-Critic, you say you've lost interest in the usual questions of your discipline? Bravo, I'm all for being undisciplined—but tell me then, what are the questions that fascinate you
The Noise of Culture: Literary Texts in a World of Information
He concludes that literature functions as the noise of culture, a source of variety in the circulation and production of ideas and a rich and indeterminate margin through which messages are sent and transformed
Forty Years
Art (8 works) · History (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Art history (4 works) · Historical and Literary Studies (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works)