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Title: De-Disciplining the Humanities (Critical Essay)
Author : Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics
Release Date : January 01, 2009
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
Pages : * pages
Size : 186 KB

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The humanities today face a series of challenges--including an inbred narcissism, chronic under-funding, and social irrelevance. This essay explains some of the reasons for this state of things. It advocates a new focus on getting our hands dirty, struggling with the slow, messy, real-life details necessary for integrating our points with the ongoing work of scientists, engineers, policy makers. In addition to pursuing rigorous scholarship, humanists can help society become more sensitive to the humanistic elements of our techno-scientific age. The Seasons of our Discontent