What Science Offers the Humanities - Integrating Body and Culture (Paperback)

What Science Offers the Humanities examines some of the deep problems facing current approaches to the study of culture. It focuses especially on the excesses of postmodernism, but also acknowledges serious problems with postmodernism's harshest critics. In short, Edward Slingerland argues that in order for the humanities to progress, its scholars need to take seriously contributions from the natural sciences-and particular research on human cognition-which demonstrate that any separation of the mind and the body is entirely untenable. The author provides suggestions for how humanists might begin to utilize these scientific discoveries without conceding that science has the last word on morality, religion, art, and literature. Calling into question such deeply entrenched dogmas as the "blank slate" theory of nature, strong social constructivism, and the ideal of disembodied reason, What Science Offers the Humanities replaces the human-sciences divide with a more integrated approach to the study of culture.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2008
First published:	2008
Authors:	Edward Slingerland
Dimensions:	229 x 160 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	390
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-70151-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
LSN:	0-521-70151-1
Barcode:	9780521701518

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