What is the purpose of studying the humanities? This paper suggests we need to revisit this fundamental question by reclaiming an older, pre-Enlightenment vision of the humanities - a vision premised on a different view of human nature and invested in the notions of contemplation, wisdom, virtue and universality. These are not amorphous notions but are associated with traditions through which they are practiced and realized. And when applied to the sphere of late modernity, they tend act in opposition to features characteristic of this modernity. Specifically: contemplation as against the commoditizing of ideas; wisdom as against information without terminus; virtue as against subjectivity defined in terms of rights; and universality as against identity politics. It is our view that this older vision of the humanities - and the key to its 'relevance' today - is that it provides a refuge against, and a challenge to, the corrosive onslaught of a dehumanizing neoliberal modernity.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2016
توصيف ظاهري
188-211
عنوان
Religion and Theology
شماره جلد
23/1-2
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1574-3012
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
contemplation
اصطلاح موضوعی
General
اصطلاح موضوعی
History of Religion
اصطلاح موضوعی
human nature
اصطلاح موضوعی
humanities
اصطلاح موضوعی
neoliberalism
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religion & Society
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
Social Sciences
اصطلاح موضوعی
Theology and World Christianity
اصطلاح موضوعی
universality
اصطلاح موضوعی
virtues
اصطلاح موضوعی
wisdom
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