Title data
Special Focus: Symbols of the Future : The Future of Symbolism.
ed.: Ahrens, Rüdiger ; Klaeger, Florian ; Stierstorfer, Klaus
ISBN 978-3-11-071671-9
Symbolism : An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics.
Vol. 20
(2021)
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- VIII, 260 p.
ISSN 2195-5115
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110716962
Project information
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Project's official title Project's id Cosmopoetic Form-knowledge: Astronomy, Poetics, and Ideology in England, 1500 – 1800 429827737 |
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft |
Abstract in another language
This special anniversary volume of Symbolism explores the nexus between symbolic signification and the future from an interdisciplinary perspective. How, contributors ask, has the future been variously rendered in symbolic terms? How do symbols and symbolic reference shape our ideas of the future? To what extent are symbols constitutive of futures, and to what extent do they restrain communication about what is possible and the imagination of fundamental change? Moreover, how have symbolic practices shaped not only artistic representations of the future, but also scientific attempts at forecasting and modelling it? What, then, is the relevance of symbolism for negotiations of the future in cultural and academic production? In essays ranging from literary and film studies to the philosophy of art and ecological modelling, the volume seeks to lay groundwork in theorizing and historicising ‘symbols of the future’ as much as ‘the future of symbolism’.