Mapping frontier research in the humanities / edited by Claus Emmeche, David Budtz Pedersen, Frederik Stjernfelt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Emmeche, Claus, 1956- editor.

Pedersen, David Budtz, editor.

Stjernfelt, Frederik, editor.

Series:

Perspectives on leadership in higher education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanities--Study and teaching (Higher).

Humanities.

Humanties--Research.

Humanties.

Interdisciplinary approach in education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 pages) : illustrations, tables

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

Summary:

"The classical sciences were organised around academic disciplines but knowledge production today is burgeoning and increasingly interdisciplinary, specialised; it is also distributed across a variety of societal sectors and increasingly involves interactions with extra-academic fields and transdisciplinary methods which focus on solving societal challenges. As a result, the notion of liberal arts and humanities within Western research universities is undergoing profound transformations. In Mapping Frontier Research in the Humanities, the contributors explore this transformative process. What are the implications, both for the modes of research and for intellectual leadership in higher education? Based on multidimensional methodologies for mapping knowledge diversity, the v. outlines reasons for optimism on the potentials as well as concerns regarding imbalances in the current hybrid university system. Drawing on a number of case studies and conceptual-empirical mappings of the humanities, the perceived divide between the classical humanities and 'post-academic' modes of research is critically discussed. Avoiding simple mechanical metrics, the contributors suggest a heuristic appreciation of different types of impact and styles of reasoning in the humanities. From this perspective, a more composite picture of human culture, language and history emerges from humanities research. It goes beyond the picture of rational agents, and situates human interaction in more complex landscapes of collective identities, networks, and constraints that open for new forms of intellectual leadership in the 21st century."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

List of figures

List of Tables

Notes on Contributors

Preface and Acknowledgements Part 1 Knowledge Production in the Humanities

1. Disciplinary Knowledge Production and Interdisciplinarity, David Budtz Pedersen, Frederik Stjernfelt and Claus Emmeche

2. Research Styles and Extra-Academic Engagement of Humanities Researchers, Lasse Johansson and Jonas Grønvad

3. Research Styles in the Human Sciences, Svend Østergaard and Peter Lau Torst Nielsen

4. Criticizing Erroneous Abstractions: the Case of Culturalism, Frederik Stjernfelt Part 2 Advances in Interdisciplinary Humanities

5. The Borderology of Interdisciplinarity : a Case of Love and Friendship, Claus Emmeche

6. Bubbles Studies: The Brass Tacks, Vincent Fella Hendricks

7. The Humanities Meet the Neurosciences, Magnus Biilmann and Simo Køppe

8. Open Human Science: Transdisciplinary and Transmedial Research, Kristian Moltke Martiny and David Budtz Pedersen Part 3 An Argument for Classical Humanities

9. The Culture Debate between Terror Threats, Free Speech and Humanism, Esther Oluffa Pedersen

10. From a National to an International Agenda, Uffe Østergaard

11. A Republican Theory of the Humanities, David Budtz Pedersen Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781472597717

1472597710

9781472597694

1472597699

9781472597700

1472597702

OCLC:

1154846307