Patterns and Principles in Rens Bod: Humanities is More than Reading

woensdag 18 juni 2014

Humanities is More than Reading

The newspaper NRC-Next (June 18) posted my reply to Rosanne Hertzberger who suggested in her column that the humanities is just about reading novels and knowing historical facts. In my (short) reply I highlight full-fledged humanistic methods such as stemmatic philology and historical source criticism. I argue that reducing the humanities to reading novels and knowing historical facts is like reducing science to listening to birds and recognizing constellations.

Click here for my reply (in Dutch)

Geen opmerkingen:

Een reactie posten

Abonneren op: Reacties posten (Atom)

31 december 2023: Ik spreek in "OVT" over het tragische einde van Taqi al-Din's observatorium

12 December 2023: Lecture at VUB Brussels: "What kind of knowledge is the pursuit of meaning?"

On 12 December at 16.15h, I will give a talk at the KIIP seminar entitled "What kind of knowledge is the pursuit of meaning?". In this talk I will present a longue durée exploration of meaning-making from a global perspective. I argue that a total of 185 distinct meaning-making practices can be discerned that can be grouped into 30 themes. I discuss a number of general patterns and principles that can be found in meaning-making practices across the world and will go into the question as to what kind of knowledge meaning-making actually is. For more info, see https://events.vub.be/kiip-seminar-rens-bod

14-15 November 2023: Online Workshop "Epistemic Transfer in the Humanities"

On 14 November I will give a brief presentation to introduce the workshop on Epistemic Transfer in the History of the Humanities. Why and how do humanities disciplines borrow knowledge from one another? Under what conditions has knowledge transfer been (un)successful in the past? And what light, if at all, do historical examples shed on current forms of (inter)disciplinarity? If you're interested in these questions, join our online workshop. For more info, see https://www.historyofhumanities.org/upcoming-meetings/workshop-epistemic-transfer/

Discussieer mee over De Vergeten Wetenschappen

woensdag 18 juni 2014

Humanities is More than Reading

Geen opmerkingen:

Een reactie posten