Sea Fortune: Literature and Navigation

Description

This new series presents original scholarly and essayistic work addressing the central status of literature in and for the human sciences. At stake in the monographs and essay collections are paradigms of literary forms for thinking the human sciences: the knowledge involved in a literary work; how modes of reading and writing shape and depend on an epoch or area of thinking; literature's affinities and points of resistance to what we call the humanities and the sciences. In other words, the series examines how literature works with and upon philosophy, rhetoric, technology, anthropology, sociology, statistics, economics, history, experimental science, mathematics etc. Paradigms is primarily concerned with German letters, but also includes its European and comparative literary contexts. All volumes will be published in English and are first reviewed by the series editors followed by a peer review from two academics in the particular area of specialization. Two to four volumes are planned annually. Editors Rüdiger Campe (Yale University, New Haven CT) Karen S. Feldman (University of California, Berkeley) Editorial Board Paul Fleming (Cornell University) Eva Geulen (Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin) Rüdiger Görner (Queen Mary, University of London) Barbara Hahn (Vanderbilt University) Daniel Heller-Roazen (Princeton University) Helmut Müller-Sievers (University of Colorado at Boulder) William Rasch (Indiana University, Bloomington) Joseph Vogl (Humboldt University, Berlin) Elisabeth Weber (University of California, Santa Barbara) Submission Format The series accepts monographs and edited volumes, if they systematically approach a specific topic and show a high level of coherence and focus. Please submit an abstract and table of contents with narrative description of each chapter (4–5 pages total, single-spaced) as well as a CV along with the complete manuscript. Only complete manuscripts can be evaluated. In exceptional cases, abstracts or outlines can be submitted to discuss the general fit of a book with the series’ editors. Please understand that a final commitment for publication can only be reached on the basis of a complete manuscript. Manuscripts should have a minimum length of circa 200 pages (approximately 500,000 characters including spaces). Please submit your abstract, table of contents, and CV as one file; the complete manuscript as a second file to Dr. Myrto Aspioti: [email protected]. Sea fortune has always been an issue of good faith and good navigation. While in antiquity, fortuna gubernatrix was praised for shielding the seaborne trade, in the Renaissance fortuna symbolized the conquest of chance and danger. Under such auspices, while relying on risk technologies modern seafaring has never lost its adventurous dimension. Understanding their origin remains a challenge for the history of science and the history of literature. Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Note for the English-language edition Departure. Topoi of Wiliness: Erring and Returning in the Odyssey Chapter 1. Rites of Passage: Cults and Religions of Fortunate Seafaring Chapter 2. In Search of Fortune: The Birth of Insurance from Maritime Danger Chapter 3. Disorientation: Poetic Experiments with Hydrography Chapter 4. The Ship of State: Cultural Techniques of Early Modern “Sea Appropriation” Chapter 5. The Figure of the Captain: Doctrine of Maritime State of Emergency Chapter 6. The Ethos of Wreckage: Perils of Modernized Seafaring Chapter 7. Shipwreck and Seasickness on Land: Terrestrial Loss of Safety Chapter 8. Potential Peril: Geopolitical Loss of Difference Chapter 9. The Takeoff of Cybernetics: Medial Recursions of the Odyssey Conclusion. Memory of the Sea: The Archeology of Maritime Culture Cited Literature List of Figures Index of Names Index of Subjects