1st Edition

The Humanities, the Social Sciences and the University A Study in Knowledge Production

By Harry Redner Copyright 2023
226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

The Humanities, the Social Sciences and the University is an intellectual history of research in the humanities and social sciences. It scrutinizes the priorities, values, objectives and publishing agendas of the modern university in order to assess the institutional pressures on research in major disciplines such as literature, history, sociology and economics. It argues that all these... Read more

    1.Literature and Criticism – revitalizing a dynamic relationship  2.History – the need for a new grand narrative  3.Sociology – the search for a common theoretical core  4.Economics – bridging the divide between scientific and socio-historical models  5.From the University to the Multiversity – and beyond  6.Academia and Publishing – a fraught relationship

    Biography

    Harry Redner was Reader at Monash University. He also held endowed chairs at Darmstadt and Kassel Universities in Germany and visiting professorships at Yale, the University of California at Berkeley, Haifa University and the École des Hautes Études in Paris. He was the author of 18 books ranging across the natural and social sciences and the humanities, notably Beyond Civilization: Society, Culture and the Individual in the Age of Globalization, Quintessence of Dust: The Science of Matter and the Philosophy of Mind and Politics, Ethics and Culture in our Time: A Post-civilizational Perspective.