... they operate. This nexus is what the authors call the “Humanities Economy,” and in this piece they propose ways in which it can be advanced and enhanced. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 cross-sector research knowledge economy future of humanities...

... apology for quietism and seeks to contribute to recent work in Common Knowledge on that subject. Bakhtin's conception of reticence is usefully understood with reference to threshold situations: in withholding a future word, a human being hovers on the borders of nonbeing and being, on the borders...

..., and at their most visionary, they urge as well the overall integration of the humanities and natural sciences. This essay indicates some major considerations—historical, conceptual, and pragmatic—that may be useful for assessing these efforts and predicting their future. Arguments promoting integration often...

... traditional, interested in supporting and encouraging the humanities, and “stuck in the historical past.” Cole reports that where Terman saw opportunities in the future, Barzun saw threats. Cole's book leaves many questions unanswered. In universities increasingly funded externally, what stance should...

...Anders Blok This guest column asks how Bruno Latour has contributed to any present and future refiguring of relations between the sciences and the humanities. To answer the question, it traces three select and shifting figures of knowledge by means of which Latour himself has been charting his...

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... does a rev- olution begin to devour human lives. Genocide is a matter of condemning whole nations, estates, or classes deemed unworthy of the future to remain in the past. Chronocide is an invisible cataclysm in consciousness, but it comes...

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..., the current stage of humanness should be called “protoinformational” rather than “posthuman,” because the human body is now explained as a semiotic network and thus transformed into an informational resource. This perspective would follow from Norbert Wiener’s suggestion that in the future it would...

.... Smith, Scandalous Knowledge , 51 . A great uncertainty remains. If the earth heats up four or six degrees over the next few centuries, there will scarcely be any human collectives left to join in forming a future. Meanwhile, politics tends to change at a glacial pace. Still, in recent years...

... among experts on relations between Christians and Jews. Instead, consider- ing the increasingly definite and crucial import of this problem for the future of the church, we must locate reference points for God’s people within Christian- ity. The objective is thus...

... for the human future was construction of “a world without cruelty”—a project whose motives, he wrote, would be “deeper and more enduring than any philosophical outlook” ever could be. 51 Nearing the end of his life, he agreed to a published dialogue with Gianni Vattimo, a soi-disant nihilist who had returned...

... concept of “great time” envisions a space in the future for texts from the past. The concept appears briefly, near the end of his life, in his 1974 sketch for an essay on methodology in the humanities.9 Great time is less a parameter than...

... the absolute duty of obedience to the state as the expression of human moral nature, the sta- tus quo seemed to have merged in his mind with the future ideal. While his argu- ments were taken directly from Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, he was speaking...

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... 2014 Notes on Contributors Barry Allen’s books include Truth in Philosophy; Knowledge and Civilization; Artifice and Design: Art and Technology in Human Experience; Striking Beauty: A Philosophical Look at the Asian Martial Arts; and Vanishing...

... back at the history of the idea of progress will show that this consensus is relatively new. The most obvious and familiar claim that progress occurs in the arts is the Hegelian conception of relentless forward movement in human self-understanding and of the crucial role played...

... linguistic form, reformed, and repeated if it is not thought to pass valuable knowledge down to listeners in the future. Although the knowledge involved may seem fantastic, it has emanated from some human experience, and, whatever the experience may have been before it was imaginatively appropriated...

... and Civilization; and Artifice and Design: Art and Technology in Human Experience. He has recently completed a book on Chinese philosophy of knowledge. Debbora Battaglia is professor of anthropology at Mount Holyoke College and author of On the Bones of the Serpent: Person, Memory, and Mortality in Sabarl...