Formula e metafora

Figures of scientists in contemporary literature and cultures. In a fragment published December 10, 1810 in his “Berliner Abendblätter”, Heinrich von Kleist argued that “men could be divided into two categories: those who understand metaphors and those who understand formulas”. Two centuries later, this volume borrows the Kleist couple “formula and metaphor” to investigate the fate of the scientist as a character in the literatures and cultures of a contemporaneity understood in the widest possible sense.