Special Issue

The Ethics and Narratives of Non-Knowledge

Edited by Simone Broders and Anna Auguscik

Front Matter JLS 18.2 (2025)

Simone Broders and Anna Auguscik, “Introduction: The Ethics and Narratives of Non-Knowledge: Literature, Science, and the Limits of Knowledge.” JLS 18.2 (2025): 1-16  DOI: 10.12929/jls.18.2.01 Download PDF Video Abstract

Marleen Waffler, “‘The blazing Stars’: Constellations of (Non-)Knowledge in the Changing Perception of Comets at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century.” JLS 18.2 (2025): 17-34  DOI: 10.12929/jls.18.2.02 Download PDF Video Abstract

Vivasvan Soni, “Judgement and the Limits of Knowledge: Distinguishing the Humanities from the Sciences Using Two Concepts of Causation.” JLS 18.2 (2025): 35-52 DOI: 10.12929/jls.18.2.03 Download PDF Video Abstract

Anton Kirchhofer, “Narrating Non-Knowledge: The Novel and the Sciences of the Human Subject.” JLS 18.2 (2025): 53-72  DOI: 10.12929/jls.18.2.04 Download PDF Video Abstract

Huiwen Helen Zhang, “Transreading the Resonance between Science, Philosophy, and Poetry.” JLS 18.2 (2025): 73-97  DOI: 10.12929/jls.18.2.05 Download PDF Video Abstract

Jürgen Meyer, “The Rhetoric of Non-Knowledge in Popularizations of Artificial Intelligence: Harari’s Homo Deus and Tegmark’s Life 3.0.” JLS 18.2 (2025): 98-114  DOI: 10.12929/jls.18.2.06 Download PDF Video Abstract

Rebekka Rohleder, “(Not) Knowing Where It Ends: Performing Non-Knowledge on Stage in Plays by Alice Birch and Finegan Kruckemeyer.” JLS 18.2 (2025): 115-128  DOI: 10.12929/jls.18.2.07 Download PDF Video Abstract

Nicole Brandstetter, “Beyond Knowledge: Self-Alienation and Collapse in an AI Society.” JLS 18.2 (2025): 129-140 DOI: 10.12929/jls.18.2.08 Download PDF Video Abstract