Background
McCarthy, John Aloysius was born on January 9, 1942 in St. Clair, Michigan, United States.
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Wieland. Epoche - Werk - Wirkung.
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Remapping Reality: Chaos and Creativity in Science and Literature (Goethe - Nietzsche - Grass) (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 97)
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This book is about intersections among science, philosophy, and literature. It bridges the gap between the traditional "cultures" of science and the humanities by constituting an area of interaction that some have called a "third culture." By asking questions about three disciplines rather than about just two, as is customary in research, this inquiry breaks new ground and resists easy categorization. It seeks to answer the following questions: What impact has the remapping of reality in scientific terms since the Copernican Revolution through thermodynamics, relativity theory, and quantum mechanics had on the way writers and thinkers conceptualized the place of human culture within the total economy of existence? What influence, on the other hand, have writers and philosophers had on the doing of science and on scientific paradigms of the world? Thirdly, where does humankind fit into the total picture with its uniquely moral nature? In other words, rather than privileging one discipline over another, this study seeks to uncover a common ground for science, ethics, and literary creativity. Throughout this inquiry certain nodal points emerge to bond the argument cogently together and create new meaning. These anchor points are the notion of movement inherent in all forms of existence, the changing concepts of evil in the altered spaces of reality, and the creative impulse critical to the literary work of art as well as to the expanding universe. This ambitious undertaking is unified through its use of phenomena typical of chaos and complexity theory as so many leitmotifs. While they first emerged to explain natural phenomena at the quantum and cosmic levels, chaos and complexity are equally apt for explaining moral and aesthetic events. Hence, the title "Remapping Reality" extends to the reconfigurations of the three main spheres of human interaction: the physical, the ethical, and the aesthetic or creative.
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John Aloysius McCarthy
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Education
Bachelor, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, 1964. Master of Arts, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1967. Doctor of Philosophy, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1972.
Master of Arts (honorary), University Pennsylvania, 1979.
Career
Instructor, assistant professor German Oakland University, Rochester, 1969—1972. Assistant, associate, full professor German and comparative literature University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1972—1991. Professor German and comparative literature Vanderbilt University, Nashville, since 1991.
Director Max Kade Center European and German Studies, since 2007. Visiting professor German Swarthmore College, since 1986. Visiting professor German and comparative literature University Munich, since 1993, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2001.
Distinguished visiting professor.
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Remapping Reality: Chaos and Creativity in Science and Literature (Goethe - Nietzsche - Grass) (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 97)
(This book is about intersections among science, philosoph...)
- Wieland. Epoche - Werk - Wirkung.
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Remapping Reality: Chaos and Creativity in Science and Literature (Goethe - Nietzsche - Grass) (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 97)
Membership
Member of Modern Language Association (executive committee division on 18th and 19th Century German literature 1989-1993, member selection committee Scaglione Book prize German studies 2000-2002), Goethe Gesellschaft Weimar, IVG, Member committee (member 1998—2002), Committee on Foreign Language and Literature (advisory 1996-1999), Goethe-Gesellschaft Weimar, Deutsche Schillergesellschaft, International Herder Society, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur die Erforschung des 18 Jahrhunderts, Goethe Society North America, American Comparative Literature Association, American Society Eighteenth-Century Studies (editorial board Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 1994-1996), American Association Teachers German (editorial board member The German Quarterly 1998—2002, Certified of Merit 2006), German Studies Association (executive committee 1995-1998), Lessing Society (vice president 1994-1996, president 1996-1999, senior editor Lessing Yearbook 2000-2007).
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Son of Raymond A and Angela J McCarthy. Married Mechthild I Buening, November 26, 1965. Children: Brian, Monika, Kristin.
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Independent
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Recipient National Defense Education Act, Title IV award, National Endowment Humanities, 1964-1966, Outstanding Graduate Student Mentoring Award, 2004, Fulbright German Studies Seminar award, 2007. Fellow Spence & Rebecca Webb Wilson fellow in the humanities, Center Humanities, Vanderbilt University, 1994-1995. Summer fellow, American Philosophical Society, 1977, 1983, German Academy Exchange Service, 1978, 1979, 2004, Senior Fulbright Research fellow, Fulbright Commission, 1993.Recipient National Defense Education Act, Title IV award, National Endowment Humanities, 1964-1966, Outstanding Graduate Student Mentoring Award, 2004, Fulbright German Studies Seminar award, 2007. Fellow Spence & Rebecca Webb Wilson fellow in the humanities, Center Humanities, Vanderbilt University, 1994-1995. Summer fellow, American Philosophical Society, 1977, 1983, German Academy Exchange Service, 1978, 1979, 2004, Senior Fulbright Research fellow, Fulbright Commission, 1993.