The crisis of the human sciences : false objectivity and the decline of creativity / edited by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanities--Philosophy.

Humanities.

Creative thinking.

Objectivity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (183 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Centralization and over-professionalization can lead to the disappearance of a critical environment capable of linking the discipline to the "real world." The authors of this volume suggest that humanities need to operate in a concrete cultural environment able to influence procedures on a hic et nunc basis and should not entirely depend on normative criteria whose function is often to hide ignorance behind a pretentious veil of value-neutral objectivity. In sociology the growth of scientism...

Contents:

Science, culture, and the university / Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

Education and the technocratic university: reflections on the purpose of the university / Kevin W. Gray

Ruskin, the challenges facing Victorian universities and the current crisis in the humanities / Stephen Keck

Pulling teeth - challenges to student creativity in the 21st century / Christopher Gottschalk

"I rated my professor a straight F": digital students evaluation patterns of "analog" humanities professors on "rate my professor" websites / Steven C. Koehn

The impact of television translations on education in Kuwait / Mohammad Akbar and Mohamed Satti

The liminal intellectual: protect and sabotage / Paolo Bonari

Philosophy 101: what's left of the discipline in the twenty-first century? / Andrei G. Zavaliy

Short notes for meta-gnoseological analysis of the problem of scientific objectivism in Husserl's the Crisis of European sciences / Roberto Sifanno

New open science: rationality 2.0? / Volker Schneider

Manufacturing sexual crisis: the HIV/AIDS industry and the forsaking of science / Helen Lauer

Comprehending false objectivity in the economic sciences through the human sciences / Ralph Palliam, Robert Ankli, and Rawda Awwad

The crisis of literary criticism in Arabic culture: platinum criticism, a preliminary definition / Ayman Bakr.

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-164) and index.

ISBN:

1-280-48584-1

9786613580825

1-4438-3393-2

OCLC:

794544543