Shows how Deleuze's philosophy is shaking up research in the humanities and social sciences
Deleuzian thinking is having a significant impact on research practices in the Social Sciences not least ...because one of its key implications is the demand to break down the false divide between theory and practice. This book brings together international academics from a range of Social Science and Humanities disciplines to reflect on how Deleuze's philosophy is opening up and shaping methodologies and practices of empirical research.
Key featuresContributors from fields throughout the social sciences demonstrate how engaging with Deleuze's work is reshaping their research process Questions the relationship between theory and methodologyExplores the conditions under which empirical research is conductedConsiders the effects/affects of researchContributors
Alecia Youngblood Jackson • Anna Hickey-Moody • Carol Taylor • David Mellor • David R. Cole • Emma Renold • Jamie Lorimer • Jessica Ringrose • Lisa A. Mazzei • Maggie MacLure • Mindy Blaise • Rebecca Coleman • Sarah Dyke • Silvia M. Grinberg
The web sites Shakespeare Census led by Adam G. Hooks and Zachary Lesser and SHAKEDSETC.ORG led by Michael Stapleton are reviewed. More than any other subfeld of literary studies, archival ...bibliography has been transformed over the past twenty years by the adoption of digital methods. Even if the move from "humanities computing" to the "digital humanities" (DH) was understood to be a move away from such strictly textual concerns, certain facets of humanities computing--the archiving, retrieval, and descriptive cataloguing of textual objects--have utterly upended the field in a way that seems shocking when compared with the disciplinary impact of DH more broadly.
This groundbreaking new volume unites eighteenth-century studies and the environmental humanities, showcasing how these fields can vibrantly benefit one another. In eleven chapters that engage a ...variety of eighteenth-century texts, contributors explore timely themes and topics such as climate change, new materialisms, the blue humanities, indigeneity and decoloniality, and green utopianism. Additionally, each chapter reflects on pedagogical concerns, asking: How do we teach eighteenth-century environmental humanities? With particular attention to the voices of early-career scholars who bring cutting-edge perspectives, these essays highlight vital and innovative trends that can enrich both disciplines, making them essential for classroom use.
Education's end Kronman, Anthony T
2007, 20070925, 2008, 2008-10-01
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The question of what living is for--of what one should care about and why--is the most important question a person can ask. Yet under the influence of the modern research ideal, our colleges and ...universities have expelled this question from their classrooms, judging it unfit for organized study. In this eloquent and carefully considered book, Tony Kronman explores why this has happened and calls for the restoration of life's most important question to an honored place in higher education. The author contrasts an earlier era in American education, when the question of the meaning of life was at the center of instruction, with our own times, when this question has been largely abandoned by college and university teachers. In particular, teachers of the humanities, who once felt a special responsibility to guide their students in exploring the question of what living is for, have lost confidence in their authority to do so. And they have lost sight of the question itself in the blinding fog of political correctness that has dominated their disciplines for the past forty years. Yet Kronman sees a readiness for change--a longing among teachers as well as students to engage questions of ultimate meaning. He urges a revival of the humanities' lost tradition of studying the meaning of life through the careful but critical reading of great works of literary and philosophical imagination. And he offers here the charter document of that revival.
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