What science offers the humanities : integrating body and culture

The Resource What science offers the humanities : integrating body and culture

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What science offers the humanities : integrating body and culture

Title remainder

integrating body and culture

Statement of responsibility

Edward Slingerland

Language

eng

Summary

"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 - in particular research on human cognition - which demonstrate that any separation of the mind and 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 humanities-sciences divide with a more integrated approach to the study of culture."--Jacket

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N$T

Dewey number

001.3

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

B53

LC item number

.S5355 2008eb

Literary form

non fiction

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