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The Transformative Humanities - A Manifesto (Paperback, New)
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The Transformative Humanities - A Manifesto (Paperback, New)
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In his famous classification of the sciences, Francis Bacon not
only catalogued those branches of knowledge that already existed in
his time, but also anticipated the new disciplines he believed
would emerge in the future: the "desirable sciences." Mikhail
Epstein echoes, in part, Bacon's vision and outlines the
"desirable" disciplines and methodologies that may emerge in the
humanities in response to the new realities of the twenty-first
century. Are the humanities a purely scholarly field, or should
they have some active, constructive supplement? We know that
technology serves as the practical extension of the natural
sciences, and politics as the extension of the social sciences.
Both technology and politics are designed to transform what their
respective disciplines study objectively. The Transformative
Humanities: A Manifesto addresses the question: Is there any
activity in the humanities that would correspond to the
transformative status of technology and politics? It argues that we
need a practical branch of the humanities which functions similarly
to technology and politics, but is specific to the cultural domain.
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