Description
Book SynopsisKnowledge production in academia today is burgeoning and increasingly interdisciplinary in nature. Research within the humanities is no exception: it is distributed across a variety of methodic styles of research and increasingly involves interactions with fields outside the narrow confines of the university. As a result, the notion of liberal arts and humanities within Western 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 the organisation of the humanities and higher education?The volume explores the intra- and extra-academic engagement of humanities researchers, their styles of research, and exemplifies their interdisciplinary character. The humanities are shaping debates about culture and identity, but how? Has neuroscience changed the humanities? What do they tell us about hypes' and economic bubbles'?
Trade ReviewMapping Frontier Research in the Humanities tackles a central irony of contemporary academic culture: the humanities, dismissed as marginal or irrelevant, are increasingly central to understanding the role of science and technology in our lives. Its empirical approach to mapping the current state and possible futures of humanistic knowledge may unsettle humanists, which is all to the good. * Robert Frodeman, Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of North Texas, USA *
This compelling book gives a most welcome account of knowledge production in the humanities, showing both their interdisciplinary place amongst the disciplines, as well as their central position in solving societal challenges. It should be compulsory reading for scholars, scientists and policy makers alike. * Rens Bod, Professor in Digital Humanities and History of Humanities, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands *
Table of ContentsList 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
