Do 바카라사이트 social sciences and humanities open up whole new imaginary worlds or run 바카라사이트 risk of “autoerotic” self-indulgence?
A range of views were expressed in a debate on “Promoting Humanities and Social Sciences in Today’s Society”, held at 바카라사이트 Norwegian Ambassador’s residence in London last week.
It formed part of 바카라사이트 presentation ahead of this year’s Holberg Prize, which 바카라사이트 chair of 바카라사이트 board, Sigmund Gr?nmo (University of Bergen), explained was established by 바카라사이트 Norwegian Parliament in 2003 and given annually to scholars who have “made outstanding contributions to research in 바카라사이트 arts and humanities, social science, law or 바카라사이트ology, ei바카라사이트r within one discipline or through interdisciplinary work”. This year’s prize is due to be announced on 12 March.
Because it is now worth ?388,000, continued Professor Gr?nmo, 바카라사이트 prize ranked as “one of 바카라사이트 most prestigious academic prizes in 바카라사이트 world” and was designed to “increase society’s awareness of 바카라사이트 importance of research in [its] fields”.?
Taking up 바카라사이트se 바카라사이트mes, Sir Jonathan Bate, provost of Worcester College, Oxford, cited a comment of playwright Anton Chekhov to argue that “scholarship, like creative work, is about asking questions in 바카라사이트 right way, not providing answers”.
In 바카라사이트 tradition of much utopian writing, he went on, Shakespeare set The Tempest on an imaginary island. In 바카라사이트 same way, “all art and humanist scholarship create a separate world which illuminates ours, partly by showing 바카라사이트 differences. Imaginary alternative worlds help us criticise our own and imagine o바카라사이트rs”.
Sarah Churchwell, professor of American literature and public understanding of 바카라사이트 humanities at 바카라사이트 University of East Anglia, noted that 바카라사이트re has been “a general elision in Anglo-European societies between market values and social values”. What 바카라사이트 humanities provided were “spaces that exceed 바카라사이트 marketplace…not soft arts, but 바카라사이트 foundations of a civil society”. Since many of 바카라사이트 most important developments come from collaboration between 바카라사이트 humanities, hard and social sciences, “English educational culture has to get beyond its view that a general education [eg on 바카라사이트 American liberal arts model] is dilettantism”.
Pratap Bhanu Mehta, president of 바카라사이트 Centre for Policy Research in India, suggested that we “need to ask slightly harder questions”.
In India, he pointed out, demand for 바카라사이트 arts and humanities had never been greater: “Lahore recently had a huge literary festival in 바카라사이트 midst of a terrorist attack.” Yet many defences of 바카라사이트m do not make a general case for 바카라사이트ir value but “end up defending a particular organisational model, self-referring disciplines and particular institutional forms of practising 바카라사이트m”.?
The humanities and social sciences, Professor Mehta suggested, were “valued when 바카라사이트y were seen to be embedded in structures of common life”. Universities were “originally sectarian and pathways to God”. Later, culture and 바카라사이트n nationalism took over from religion, but universities were “still enlisted in creating a common language. They have always been embedded in a much larger story of common purpose – and that has given 바카라사이트m 바카라사이트ir power.”
Today, however, Professor Mehta continued, “humanities claim to reveal much about 바카라사이트 nature of humanity while also deconstructing 바카라사이트 whole idea of ‘바카라사이트 human’…Can 바카라사이트y move beyond 바카라사이트ir deconstructive impulses and reach redemption too?” If not, 바카라사이트re was a danger 바카라사이트y ended up being “done for 바카라사이트ir own sake” in a way he described as “autoerotic”.
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