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The narrative universe

Title: The narrative universe / Gianluca Bocchi, Mauro Ceruti ; translated by Luca Pellagrini and Alfonso Montuori.
Author: Bocchi, Gianluca.
Publication: Cresskill, N.J. : Hampton Press, [2001], ©2001.

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Additional Authors

Ceruti, Mauro.

Description

xix, 279 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Advances in systems theory, complexity, and the human sciences

Uniform Title

Alternative Title

Origini di storie.

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Contents

Series Editor's Foreword / Alfonso Montuori -- Foreword / Jerome Bruner -- Pt. 1. Stories of Origin. 1.0. The Origin of History. 1.1. The World of the Goddess. 1.2. History Before History. 1.3. Earth Goddesses and Sky Gods. 1.4. Intertwining Dualities. 1.5. Eternal Return and the Promise of Salvation -- Pt. 2. The Invention of a New Era. 2.0. The Universe in the Pluriverse. 2.1. 1492. 2.2. Cuius Regio, Eius Religio. 2.3. A Closed World in an Infinite Universe. 2.4. History and Forms -- Pt. 3. The Time of Evolution. 3.0. The End of Eternity. 3.1. Exploring Deep Time. 3.2. Life of the Species. 3.3. Leaps in Nature. 3.4. The Return of "Hopeful Monsters" 3.5. Evolutionary Pluralism. 3.6. The Ecology of Evolution -- Pt. 4. The Metamorphoses of Life. 4.0. Shiva's Dance. 4.1. The Ages of the Biosphere. 4.2. Death of the Species. 4.3. Animals Are Not What They Used to Be. 4.4. Life Before Life -- Pt. 5. The Contingent Universe.
5.0. Beyond the End of the World. 5.1. Jurassic Park, Professor Ichthyosaurus, and the Mesozoic Rats. 5.2. The Bookmaker's Bankruptcy. 5.3. Irreversibility, Events and Coherence. 5.4. The Greatest Science Fiction Stories Ever Told.

ISBN

1572732806 (paper)

LCCN

2001039363

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Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries