The 12^th International Conference of
	ISSEI	In cooperation With
	International Society for the Study of European Ideas

Section IV: Literature, Art, Music, Theatre, Culture

and

Section V: Religion, Philosophy, Anthropology, Psychology, Language

Workshop: Science, Nature, and Technology in Western Fiction and Aesthetics

Chairs: Ingrid Makus and Douglas Moggach

This panel solicits papers which explores how Western narratives, in the form of poetry, plays and novels, and also in aesthetics, depict aspects of the human relationship to science, nature, and technology. The theme of the panel is the development of Western thought about this interaction, beginning with the ideas portrayed in classical Greek tragedy, moving through to medieval epics and the modern eighteenth century novel, and continuing to contemporary fiction that aims to challenge the structure and form of Western narrative. Reflections on this nteraction in aesthetics will also be examined.

Ingrid Makus

Department of Political Science

Brock University

St. Catharines, L2T 3M3

Canada

imakus@brocku.ca

Douglas Moggach

School of Political Studies

University of Ottawa

Ottawa K1N6N5

Canada

dmoggach@uottawa.ca

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