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Progress and Values in the Humanities
- Comparing Culture and Science
Af: Volney Gay
Engelsk
Bogcover for Progress and Values in the Humanities af Volney Gay, 9780231147903
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9780231147903
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
0231147902
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
1 dec 2009
Størrelse i cm:
22,9 x 15,2
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
1 dec 2009
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Progress and Values in the Humanities

- Comparing Culture and Science
Af: Volney Gay
Engelsk
Hardback 2009
Format:
Hardback
Bog beskrivelse
Money and support tend to flow in the direction of economics, science, and other academic departments that demonstrate measurable "progress." The humanities, on the other hand, offer more abstract and uncertain outcomes. A humanist's objects of study are more obscure in certain ways than pathogens and cells. Consequently, it seems as if the humanities never truly progress. Is this a fair assessment? By comparing objects of science, such as the brain, the galaxy, the amoeba, and the quark, with objects of humanistic inquiry, such as the poem, the photograph, the belief, and the philosophical concept, Volney Gay reestablishes a fundamental distinction between science and the humanities. He frees the latter from its pursuit of material-based progress and restores its disciplines to a place of privilege and respect. Using the metaphor of magnification, Gay shows that, while we can investigate natural objects to the limits of imaging capacity, magnifying cultural objects dissolves them into noise. In other words, cultural objects can be studied only within their contexts and through the prism of metaphor and narrative. Gathering examples from literature, art, film, philosophy, religion, science, and psychoanalysis, Gay builds a new justification for the humanities. By revealing the unseen and making abstract ideas tangible, the arts create meaningful wholes, which itself is a form of progress.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9780231147903
Indbinding:
Hardback
ISBN-10:
0231147902
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
1 dec 2009
Størrelse i cm:
22,9 x 15,2
Forlag:
Oplagsdato:
1 dec 2009
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