What Science Offers the Humanities

副标题: Integrating Body and Culture (New Approaches to European His)

ISBN: 9780521701518

出版社: Cambridge University Press

出版年: 2008-02-11

页数: 390

定价: USD 25.99

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

What Science Offers the Humanities, first published in 2008, examines some of the deep problems facing the study of culture. It focuses on the excesses of postmodernism, but also acknowledges serious problems with postmodernism's harshest critics. In short, Edward Slingerland argues that in order for the humanities to progress, its scholars need to take seriously contributions from the natural sciences - and particular research on human cognition - which demonstrate that any separation of the mind and the body is entirely untenable. The author provides suggestions for how humanists might begin to utilize these scientific discoveries without conceding that science has the last word on morality, religion, art, and literature. Calling into question such deeply entrenched dogmas as the 'blank slate' theory of nature, strong social constructivism, and the ideal of disembodied reason, What Science Offers the Humanities replaces the human-sciences divide with a more integrated approach to the study of culture.