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Online-Ressource (343 p)
ISBN:
9781441100467
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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 practi
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Acknowledgments; Foreword, by Caryl Emerson; Introduction; Part one: An open future; 1 From post- to proto-: Toward a new prefix in cultural vocabulary; 2 Chronocide: A prologue to the resurrection of time; 3 Mikhail Bakhtin and the future of the humanities; Part two: Humans and texts; 4 Reconfigurations of textuality; 5 " " Ecophilogy: Text and its environment; 6 Semiurgy: From language analysis to language synthesis; 7 Scriptorics: An introduction to the anthropology and personology of writing; Part three: Humans and machines; 8 The fate of the human in the posthuman age
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9 The art of world-making and the new vocation for metaphysics10 Information trauma and the evolution of the human species; 11 Horrology: The study of civilization in fear of itself; Part four: Humans and humans; 12 Universics: From relativism to critical universality; 13 Micronics: The study of small things; 14 From body to self: What is it like to be what you are?; 15 Differential ethics: From the golden rule to the diamond rule; Part five: The future of wisdom and creative theory; 16 What is "the interesting"?; 17 Philosophy's return to wisdom; 18 Logos and Sophia: Sophian disciplines
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19 The philosophy of the possible and the possibilities of philosophy20 The mass of knowledge and the energy of thinking; In place of a conclusion: A new introduction to future thinking; Glossary; Bibliography; Index of names; index of subjects;
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ISBN 9781441160942
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ISBN 9781441100467
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Transformative Humanities : A Manifesto
Sprache:
Englisch
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