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Progress and Values in the Humanities: Comparing Culture and Science
Volney Gay
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Description for Progress and Values in the Humanities: Comparing Culture and Science
Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: JNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 472.
Money and support tend to flow in the direction of economics, science, and other academic departments that demonstrate measurable "progress." The humanities, on the other hand, offer more abstract and uncertain outcomes. A humanist's objects of study are more obscure in certain ways than pathogens and cells. Consequently, it seems as if the humanities never truly progress. Is this a fair assessment? By comparing objects of science, such as the brain, the galaxy, the amoeba, and the quark, with objects of humanistic inquiry, such as the poem, the photograph, the belief, and the philosophical concept, Volney Gay reestablishes a ... Read more
Money and support tend to flow in the direction of economics, science, and other academic departments that demonstrate measurable "progress." The humanities, on the other hand, offer more abstract and uncertain outcomes. A humanist's objects of study are more obscure in certain ways than pathogens and cells. Consequently, it seems as if the humanities never truly progress. Is this a fair assessment? By comparing objects of science, such as the brain, the galaxy, the amoeba, and the quark, with objects of humanistic inquiry, such as the poem, the photograph, the belief, and the philosophical concept, Volney Gay reestablishes a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231147903
SKU
V9780231147903
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About Volney Gay
Volney Gay is professor of religion, psychiatry, and anthropology at Vanderbilt University and is a training analyst at the St. Louis Psychoanalytic Institute. He is the author of six other books, including Freud on Sublimation: Reconsiderations; Joy and the Objects of Psychoanalysis: Literature, Belief, and Neurosis; and Reading Jung: Science, Psychology, and Religion.
Reviews for Progress and Values in the Humanities: Comparing Culture and Science
An interdisciplinary book that itself serves as an eloquent example of why the humanities are priceless... Essential. Choice