In the current atmosphere of controversy about modes of
interpreting literature, historical influences in science, and
subtle ideologies in social theory, Abraham Edel confronts the
institutionalized separation of the humanities and the sciences,
the segregation of disciplines through structures that rest on
entrenched dualisms, and the isolations reenforced by habits of the
academy and its struggles over turf. Edel's "search for
connections" - carried out not only theoretically but through a
series of particular studies spanning major disciplines from
philosophy and social theory to jurisprudence, biography, and
cultural anthropology - leads into uncharted waters. He faces the
startling conclusion that the clue to answering internal questions
characteristically turns out to come from trans-discipline
relations.
This fourth volume of Edel's "Science, Ideology and Value
"focuses in a Deweyan vein on the functional requirements at the
base of the social sciences and humanities alike: discipline
structures are subject to change, development, and decay, and even
to categorial shifts as well as to readjustments. At the same time,
Edel's philosophical nauralism helps diagnose the obstacles to
research that stem from imposed dualisms such as theory and
practice, subjectivity and objectivity, fact and value, individual
and society, as well as social contrasts of elite and mass.
Normative structures are to be held responsible to inquiry, and a
self-conscious exploratory practice is needed to minimize the risks
of arbitrary closures. For those who wish to get beyond
sloganeering in the world of education, humane learning, and the
social and historical sciences, this book is a must.
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