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UNINA9910821672603321 |
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Autore |
Slingerland Edward G (Edward Gilman) |
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Titolo |
What science offers the humanities : integrating body and culture / / Edward Slingerland |
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Cambridge ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2008 |
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1-107-18315-4 |
1-281-25476-2 |
9786611254766 |
0-511-84116-7 |
0-511-38713-X |
0-511-38610-9 |
0-511-38427-0 |
0-511-38246-4 |
0-511-38812-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xv, 370 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Philosophy |
Science and the humanities |
Humanity |
Human body |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-355) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Exorcising the ghost in the machine -- Embodying culture -- Defending vertical integration. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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What Science Offers the Humanities examines some of the deep problems facing the study of culture. It focuses on the excesses of postmodernism, but also acknowledges serious problems with postmodernism's harshest critics. In short, Edward Slingerland argues that in order for the humanities to progress, its scholars need to take seriously contributions from the natural sciences - and particular research on human cognition - which demonstrate that any separation of the mind and the body is entirely untenable. The author provides suggestions for how humanists might begin to utilize these scientific |
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