- Taschenbuch: 146 Seiten
- Verlag: Prometheus Books (31. Mai 1997)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1573921343
- ISBN-13: 978-1573921343
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 21,3 x 13,8 x 0,8 cm
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- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 621.091 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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In this remarkable work, master story-teller Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) builds on known scientific truths to propound a universe governed by the immutable laws of attraction and repulsion, i.e., expansion and a return to unity. The irascible, vindictive God of the Old Testament and the Deists' Master Clockmaker are routed by Poe's pantheistic World Spirit who, through the force of expansion, is diffused throughout his creation. Moreover, we humans are all part of this universal spirit and each of us is his own god. Published after his death, as Poe desired, "Eureka" remains a startlingly different work from the author's more popular offerings.
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In this remarkable work, master story-teller Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) builds on known scientific truths to propound a universe governed by the immutable laws of attraction and repulsion, i.e., expansion and a return to unity. The irascible, vindictive God of the Old Testament and the Deists' Master Clockmaker are routed by Poe's pantheistic World Spirit who, through the force of expansion, is diffused throughout his creation. Moreover, we humans are all part of this universal spirit and each of us is his own god. Published after his death, as Poe desired, "Eureka" remains a startlingly different work from the author's more popular offerings.
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Written in 1848, Eureka, one of Edgar Allan Poe's last works, propounds his theory of the creation of the material and spiritual universe. In his preface, Poe says "...it is as a Poem only that I wish this work to be judged after I am dead." However, a reader would find it hard to consider Eureka a poem of any sort when the author spends three-quarters of the work expounding, through philosophical proof, a scientific belief in an essay format. Poe's belief is that "Gravity exists on account of Matter's having been radiated, at its origin, atomically, into a limited sphere of Space, from one, individual, unconditional, irrelative, and absolute Particle Proper, by the sole process in which it was possible to satisfy, at the same time, the two conditions, radiation and equable distribution throughout the sphere-that is to say, by a force varying in direct proportion with the squares of the distances between the radiated atoms, respectively, and the Particular centre of Radiation."
As a scientific or philosophical discourse on astronomy, Eureka is a work ahead of its time. Poe went step by step using undeniable comparisons, similar to a geometric proof, to conclude with the aforementioned statement. He begins by proposing his theme that "In the Original Unity of the First Thing lies the Secondary Cause of All Things, with the Germ of their Inevitable Annihilation." He means that through the only Ultimate Principle-the Volition of God, the Universe was created. Within this creation there is an inherited yearning to return to the Original Unity. Poe further explains his theory which is extremely similar to the Big Bang Theory. During creation, the Will of God produced a reaction within a finite space, causing the Original Unity to separate and disperse (or radiate). After the force of creation, "Gravity", an equal but opposite force began to exert itself. This force, proven through Newtonian experimentation, is now contracting the universe back into the "One" or "Original Unity." That is how Poe explains the existence of Gravity along with the dispersion of galaxies, stars, planets, and moons.
But as a literary piece, most readers would drop the book within the first ten pages. Poe's diatribe succeeds in alienating the modern reader through his references to seemingly unknown astronomers and physicists from the 18th and 19th centuries such as Laplace, Comte, Dr. Nichol, Mädler, Lord Rosse, and many others. The usual motifs found in his short stories and poems are missing within the pages of Eureka. What is retained is his compounded clause sentence structure and his sense of self-worth. In many instances, Poe describes scientists' discoveries as being correct, but driven by instinct instead of reason, unlike his own. Interestingly, throughout his essay, he uses the words Divine and God very often. It leads one to believe that since this is written at the end of his life, that maybe he has begun to fear what is to come. Yet this uncharacteristic Poe disappears in the last page in which he states that "Man will at length attain that awfully triumphant epoch when he shall recognize his existence as that of Jehovah." Here Poe, the short story writer, returns as the curtain falls, letting us all know that there is no God but the Unity of ourselves, which of course includes himself.
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"rise again to the Life Everlasting"
6. Juli 2005
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This work is most accurately described as an essay. Poe writes on its pages a Cosmogony, that is to say, he gives an explanation of how and why the Universe began, the way it evolved to its present condition, and what will happen to it in the end. This is no simple work, and contains not only his view of the Universe, but presents Poe's concerns with beauty, aesthetics, eternity and infinity. The essay has scientific speculations and methaphysical discussions, but Poe himself wanted it to be judged as a poem, perhaps synthesising in his wish the contradictory character of this strange, beautiful and profound work.
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Poe's Pinnacle Work on the Creation of the Universe
4. März 1999
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Written in 1848, Eureka, one of Edgar Allan Poe's last works, propounds his theory of the creation of the material and spiritual universe. In his preface, Poe says "...it is as a Poem only that I wish this work to be judged after I am dead." However, a reader would find it hard to consider Eureka a poem of any sort when the author spends three-quarters of the work expounding, through philosophical proof, a scientific belief in an essay format. Poe's belief is that "Gravity exists on account of Matter's having been radiated, at its origin, atomically, into a limited sphere of Space, from one, individual, unconditional, irrelative, and absolute Particle Proper, by the sole process in which it was possible to satisfy, at the same time, the two conditions, radiation and equable distribution throughout the sphere-that is to say, by a force varying in direct proportion with the squares of the distances between the radiated atoms, respectively, and the Particular centre of Radiation."
As a scientific or philosophical discourse on astronomy, Eureka is a work ahead of its time. Poe went step by step using undeniable comparisons, similar to a geometric proof, to conclude with the aforementioned statement. He begins by proposing his theme that "In the Original Unity of the First Thing lies the Secondary Cause of All Things, with the Germ of their Inevitable Annihilation." He means that through the only Ultimate Principle-the Volition of God, the Universe was created. Within this creation there is an inherited yearning to return to the Original Unity. Poe further explains his theory which is extremely similar to the Big Bang Theory. During creation, the Will of God produced a reaction within a finite space, causing the Original Unity to separate and disperse (or radiate). After the force of creation, "Gravity", an equal but opposite force began to exert itself. This force, proven through Newtonian experimentation, is now contracting the universe back into the "One" or "Original Unity." That is how Poe explains the existence of Gravity along with the dispersion of galaxies, stars, planets, and moons.
But as a literary piece, most readers would drop the book within the first ten pages. Poe's diatribe succeeds in alienating the modern reader through his references to seemingly unknown astronomers and physicists from the 18th and 19th centuries such as Laplace, Comte, Dr. Nichol, Mädler, Lord Rosse, and many others. The usual motifs found in his short stories and poems are missing within the pages of Eureka. What is retained is his compounded clause sentence structure and his sense of self-worth. In many instances, Poe describes scientists' discoveries as being correct, but driven by instinct instead of reason, unlike his own. Interestingly, throughout his essay, he uses the words Divine and God very often. It leads one to believe that since this is written at the end of his life, that maybe he has begun to fear what is to come. Yet this uncharacteristic Poe disappears in the last page in which he states that "Man will at length attain that awfully triumphant epoch when he shall recognize his existence as that of Jehovah." Here Poe, the short story writer, returns as the curtain falls, letting us all know that there is no God but the Unity of ourselves, which of course includes himself.
Probably as important as Poe thought it was
12. Mai 2012
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Poe claimed that this "poem" was more important than the discovery of gravity. Albert Einstein called it a beautiful work of an unusually independant mind. His friends thought he was being absurd. A good friend of his that tended to his dying wife cut communication with him because it offended her religious dogma. Poe wrote in a letter to his Aunt that he no longer feared death or desired life because he could reach no higher zenith than his completion of this book. Within a year, he was dead.
This book is a hard read, no doubt. But in between and sometimes within his complex explanations are profound truths, truths known by Buddhists for thousands of years, but never explained in this way. Poe has unlocked the oneness of the cosmos, and explained the big bang, relativity, planets beyond our known solar system, black holes, and the nature of the ever expanding, ever contracting eternal universe by pure intution and inspiration - some of them fifty or so years before their "discovery"
If you love this sort of thing and have a tolerance for wordiness, it's well worth the read. It is probably the most important book of the last two thousand years, and at the same time - just another book.
This book is a hard read, no doubt. But in between and sometimes within his complex explanations are profound truths, truths known by Buddhists for thousands of years, but never explained in this way. Poe has unlocked the oneness of the cosmos, and explained the big bang, relativity, planets beyond our known solar system, black holes, and the nature of the ever expanding, ever contracting eternal universe by pure intution and inspiration - some of them fifty or so years before their "discovery"
If you love this sort of thing and have a tolerance for wordiness, it's well worth the read. It is probably the most important book of the last two thousand years, and at the same time - just another book.
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