The transformative humanities a manifesto Mikhail Epstein ; translated and edited by Igor Klyukanov.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Epstein, Mikhail, author.

Contributor:

Klyukanov, Igor, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanities--Philosophy.

Humanities.

Learning and scholarship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York Bloomsbury 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Foreword, by Caryl Emerson (Princeton University)Introduction Part One. An Open Future

Chapter 1. From Post- to Proto-: Toward a New Prefix in Cultural Vocabulary

Chapter 2. Chronocide: A Prologue to the Resurrection of Time

Chapter 3. Mikhail Bakhtin and the Future of the Humanities Part Two. Humans and Texts

Chapter 4. Reconfigurations of Textuality

Chapter 5. " ". Ecophilogy: Text and its Environment

Chapter 6. Semiurgy: From Language Analysis to Language Synthesis

Chapter 7. Scriptorics: An Introduction to the Anthropology and Personology of Writing Part Three. Humans and Machines

Chapter 8. The Fate of the Human in the Posthuman Age

Chapter 9. The Art of World-Making and the New Vocation for Metaphysics

Chapter 10. Information Trauma and the Evolution of the Human Species

Chapter 11. Horrology: The Study of Civilization in Fear of Itself Part Four. Humans and Humans

Chapter 12. Universics: From Relativism to Critical Universality

Chapter 13. Micronics: The Study of Small Things

Chapter 14. From Body to Self: What Is It Like To Be What You Are?

Chapter 15. Differential Ethics: From the Golden Rule to the Diamond Rule Part Five. The Future of Wisdom. Creative Theory

Chapter 16. What Is 'The Interesting?'

Chapter 17. Philosophy's Return to Wisdom

Chapter 18. Logos and Sophia: Sophian Disciplines

Chapter 19. The Philosophy of the Possible and the Possibilities of Philosophy

Chapter 20. The Mass of Knowledge and the Energy of Thinking In Place of a Conclusion: A New Introduction to Future Thinking Glossary

ReferencesIndex

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-314) and index

Creative Commons. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en

ISBN:

9781441121554

1441121552

9781472542885

1472542886

9781283700863

1283700867

9781441160942

1441160949

OCLC:

818831228