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What Science Offers the Humanities - Integrating Body and Culture (Hardcover, New)
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What Science Offers the Humanities - Integrating Body and Culture (Hardcover, New)
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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.
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