The Transformative Humanities - Couverture souple

Epstein, Mikhail

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1441155074 ISBN 13 : 9781441155078

Editeur : Bloomsbury Academic, 2012

Synopsis

In his famous classification of the sciences, Francis Bacon not only catalogued those branches of knowledge that already existed in his time, but also anticipated the new disciplines he believed would emerge in the future: the "desirable sciences." Mikhail Epstein echoes, in part, Bacon's vision and outlines the "desirable" disciplines and methodologies that may emerge in the humanities in response to the new realities of the twenty-first century. Are the humanities a purely scholarly field, or should they have some active, constructive supplement? We know that technology serves as the practical extension of the natural sciences, and politics as the extension of the social sciences. Both technology and politics are designed to transform what their respective disciplines study objectively.

The Transformative Humanities: A Manifesto addresses the question: Is there any activity in the humanities that would correspond to the transformative status of technology and politics? It argues that we need a practical branch of the humanities which functions similarly to technology and politics, but is specific to the cultural domain.

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À propos des auteurs

Mikhail Epstein is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Cultural Theory and Russian Literature at Emory University, USA. From 2012-2015 he was Professor of Russian and Cultural Theory and Founding Director of the Centre for Humanities Innovation at Durham University, UK. His research interests include new directions in the humanities and methods of intellectual creativity, contemporary philosophy, postmodernism, Russian literature, and philosophy and religion of the 20th-21st centuries. He is the author of 40 books, including The Transformative Humanities: A Manifesto (Bloomsbury, 2012), and more than 800 articles and essays. His work has been translated into 26 languages.

Igor E. Klyukanov is Professor of Communication Studies at Eastern Washington University. He has authored more than 100 articles, book chapters and books in communication theory, semiotics, translation studies, general linguistics, and intercultural communication. He served as an associate editor of The American Journal of Semiotics and is the founding editor of the Russian Journal of Communication. He is the author A Communication Universe: Manifestations of Meaning, Stagings of Significance (2010), winner of NCA Philosophy of Communication Division 2012 Best Book Award, and the translator and editor of Mikhail Epstein's book The Transformative Humanities: A Manifesto (Bloomsbury, 2012).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloomsbury Academic
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1441155074
• ISBN 13: 9781441155078
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 344
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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