Henry David Thoreau and Scientific Culture

环境伦理学 哲学 艺术史
作者
Antonio Casado da Rocha
出处
期刊:Anglo-saxónica 卷期号:17 (1)
标识
DOI:10.5334/as.5
摘要

Henry David Thoreau’s life and writings are notoriously resilient—they have remained relevant throughout crisis and change in contemporary societies. This could be because readers have found in Thoreau an ongoing awareness of some humanizing/dehumanizing features of a world increasingly shaped by science and technology. Metaphors can facilitate the public’s engagement with some emancipatory aspects of science that are increasingly disappearing from the contemporary world (Pilkington 2016; Garces 2017). Through a discussion of the bream passage in Thoreau’s 1858 journal, and the metaphors used in connection with this particular fish, the paper shows how Thoreau managed to establish an emotional connection between the reader’s world and the world of science, thus reuniting knowledge and empowerment through scientific culture (as opposed to the “two cultures” thesis). The conclusion is that one of the most interesting uses of Thoreau today could be the radical illustration or enactment of a wide set of rapports or reactions to scientific activities. Because his work provides a permanent resource of emotional reactions to science—including wonder, perplexity, inquiry and critique—it could help re-humanize science by means of an enlargement of the emotional palette used in scientific culture communication. Resumo A vida e a obra de Henry David Thoreau sao notoriamente resilientes, permanecendo relevantes perante a crise e a transformacao das sociedades contemporâneas. A justificacao para isso reside no facto de os leitores encontrarem em Thoreau uma permanente consciencia de certas caracteristicas humanas / desumanas num mundo cada vez mais moldado pela ciencia e tecnologia. As metaforas podem facilitar o envolvimento do publico com alguns dos aspetos emancipatorios da ciencia, esses mesmo que estao a desaparecer cada vez mais do mundo contemporâneo (Pilkington 2016; Garces 2017). A partir de uma reflexao sobre o peixe-sol-bandado no Diario de Thoreau (1858) e das metaforas usadas em relacao com este peixe em particular, o artigo mostra como Thoreau conseguiu estabelecer uma ligacao emocional entre o mundo do leitor e o mundo da ciencia, aliando conhecimento e capacitacao atraves cultura cientifica (em oposicao a tese das “duas culturas”). A conclusao e que um dos usos mais interessantes da obra de Thoreau no mundo contemporâneo pode ser o modo como esta se afirma ilustracao radical de um amplo conjunto de relacoes ou reacoes a atividades cientificas. Porque o seu trabalho se apresenta como um recurso permanente de reacoes emocionais a ciencia – incluindo maravilhamento, perplexidade, investigacao e critica – este pode ajudar a re-humanizar a ciencia por meio de uma ampliacao da paleta emocional usada na comunicacao da cultura cientifica. Palavras-chave: Henry D. Thoreau; ciencia; poesia; natureza; relacoes

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