Progress in the humanities?
Subtitle: comparing the objects of culture and science
By: Volney Gay
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780231147903; 9780231519816
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Humanists and their subject matters; title: The task of the humanities: looking into the deep; title: A new answer; title: Magnifying truths: two slide shows; title: Searching for the hero: the one who knows; title: Large-scale research in the humanities; title: 20mule team; title: Choir; title: Sports team; title: Lifeboat; title: Distributed computing; title: Big science; title: Skunk works: discovery at the edges; title: Self-understanding as the object of humanistic research; title: Deep language: the anxiety of translation; title: Magnification and cultural objects; title: Fantasies of depth: magnifying cultural objects; title: Horizontal analyses in art criticism; title: Psychotherapy: part science, part humanities, mostly art; title: John Updike, rabbit reruns; title: Science, art, metapsychology, and magnification; title: Back to Freud, back to the Greeks!; title: What counts as progress in the humanities?; title: Back to Freud, back to the Greeks!; title: Progress in Greek philosophy, literature, and mathematics; title: Development and progress in Greek sculpture; title: Greek literature, more serious than history; title: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus; title: Progress in Greek mathematics: incommensurability; title: Seven of nine and five of nine; title: Science fiction and psychiatry; title: Mapping the boundaries of human being; title: Diagnosing the borderline personality: five of nine symptoms; title: On the pleasures of science fiction: jumping into the abyss; title: Progress as development of the self: from Greek cult to Greek theater; title: Canals on mars: exploring imaginary worlds; title: Virtual civilizations: Percival Lowell and the Martian Canals; title: Pathological science: the limits of vision; title: ESP at Duke: the story of J. Rhine; title: Cargo cults and the ethics of science; title: Thomas MacAulay and English destiny: history as grand narrative; title: Searching for essences: Freud and Wittgenstein; title: Seeing into the psyche: Freud's diagrams; title: Wittgenstein and sharp focusing; title: Magnifying truths in philosophical investigations; title: The magnification fantasy and ideological leanings; title: Cultural artifacts and reductionism; title: Learning about the self: new horizons; title: Seeing with the brain; title: Learning from the market: reason as an interpersonal process; title: High art and the power to guess the unseen from the seen; title: Does high art convey knowledge?; title: Tragedy and mourning as progress; title: The power to guess the unseen from the seen; title: Reality testing as an intrapsychic process; title: Looking outward, three movies; title: Blow up; title: High anxiety; title: The conversation; title: Isolating valid signals, making the right cut; title: Magnification in humanistic theory.