Remapping Reality: Chaos and Creativity in Science and Literature (Goethe - Nietzsche - Grass) Tapa blanda - 2006

John A. McCarthy is Professor of German & Comparative Literature, Associate Director of the Center for European and German Studies, and Chair of the Faculty Senate at Vanderbilt University. He previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania, has held visiting professorships at Swarthmore College and the Universitt Mnchen, and served as the Charlotte M. Craig Visiting Professor at Rutgers University. McCarthy teaches courses on the Enlightenment and its legacies, Goethe's Faust, Nietzsche and literature, on changing concepts of evil, and on science and literature. Among his numerous publications are: Strategien der Schpfung. Paradigmenwechsel der Kreativitt in Natur und Kunst (1995), Enlightenment Today or Movement at the Borders (1996), 'A Chain of Utmost Potency' On the Agon and the Creative Impulse in "Faust" (1997), Boundary Literature and the Notion of Literariness (1997), Disrupted Patterns: On Chaos and Order in the Enlightenment (ed. with Theodore E. D. Braun, 1999), Beyond a Philosophy of Alternatives: Chaos, Cosmology and the Eighteenth Century(1999), Die Nietzsche-Rezeption in der Literatur 1890﷓1918 (1999), Bewegung als 'Gegenstand' der Literatur (1999), Criticism and Experience: Philosophy and Literature in the German Enlightenment (2002), The "Pregnant Point" Goethe on Complexity, Interdisciplinarity, and Emergence (2002), The History of German Departments in the United States (2003), The Many Faces of Germany (2004, ed. with Walter Grnzweig and Thomas Koebner), Goethe and Schiller after Adorno (2004), and Kopernikus und die bewegliche Schnheit oder Schiller und die Gravitationslehre (2005). He is currently working on a book on counter cultures 1770-1990.