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it is significant if your aim is not to simply "understand" the cutbacks (is it really that hard?), but to alter, prevent, or diminish the cutbacks. Quote:
how? explain. because i see the humanities reinventing themselves with the times. instead of declaring "undercuts!" do explain -- how? Quote:
everything changes, including the humanities, parmenides. i'm of the heraclitean persuasion-- stay still & perish like a dog. speaking of which, this business office i need to visit closes at 5 so i gotta go but i will read your predictably cranky answer at a later time. |
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define "essential" particularly, in what you think is the "unchangeable essence" of the humanities i don't know of any, but perhaps you do-- "it deals with humans" or such trivial responses don't count. |
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05.13.2010, 02:05 PM | #146 |
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I nicked this off wikipedia:
"The humanities are academic disciplines which study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytic, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural and social sciences." |
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05.13.2010, 08:59 PM | #148 |
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I suppose in essence, the humanities is an enquiry into what it is to be human, while avoiding any kind of meta-position that might suggest we can understand ourselves from any purely objective standpoint - hence its emphasis on things like interpretation and human creativity and why people like Freud are studied far more in humanities departments than they are science ones. It's probably why Marx has endured so well in the humanities, where it's treated more a method of interpretation than as a way of emprically understanding human behaviour - much to the annoyance of those who consider Marxism a science, I'm sure.
In that sense, I imagine the moment the humanities tries to adopt such a meta-position will be the very moment it stops being the humanities. |
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