Science and Structure in Proust's A la recherche du temps perdu [Hardcover]

Proust is read as a writer of maxims and metaphors, of short and long sentences, as at once an aesthete and a scientific thinker. HisA la recherche du temps perduis a hybrid, a novel-essay, an epistemological debate that crosses the boundaries between two cultures, art and science. Science and Structure explores the epistemological alertness and anxiety of Proust's masterpiece and in so doing illuminates the interrelations between modernist art and science.

Introduction
Maxims
Correspondence between Art and Science
Retroduction
Hypothesis
Modelling
Knowledge as Revolution and Revelation
Theory-laden souffrance
Serendipity
Bibliography
Index