New Paradigm Shifts in Literature through Poetry’s Transcendence of Boundaries

This book proves that when science and literature, especially poetry, enact and interact with each other, transdisciplinary fields are created, and new knowledge-building practices are produced. The discussions of interconnections between poetry on the one hand and physics, biology, biochemistry and pharmacology on the other hand stress that common ground can be found among diverse disciplines and transdisciplinary solutions can be offered to wicked problems. The relation between science and transdisciplinarity and other knowledge systems, including arts and literature, should be supported. Novel thinking, mixing and merging disciplines creating a third space and realizing new findings should relate academy to society. Therefore, researchers and transdisciplinarians should focus on the power that can reshape the world transcending traditional academic confines. Raising questions that can lead to deeply philosophical and scientific disputes develops solutions for wicked problems and creates an ongoing encounter on all solutions. There should be a remapping of societal landscape so that transdisciplinarity yields fruitful results and leaves a formative impact on every aspect of life.