Towards a New Enlightenment - The Case for Future-Oriented Humanities

✍ Scribed by Markus Gabriel; Christoph Horn; Anna Katsman; Wilhelm Krull; Anna Luisa Lippold; Corine Pelluchon; Ingo Venzke; THE NEW INSTITUTE

• Publisher: transcript Verlag
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 81
• Series: The New Institute.Interventions; 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

What role can the humanities play in shaping our common future? What are the values that guide us in the 21st century? How can we unleash the potential the humanities offer in a time of multiple crises? This volume tackles some of these fundamental questions, acknowledging and developing the changing role of academic discourse in a turbulent world. This timely book argues that the humanities engender conceptual tools that are capable of reconciling theory and practice. In a bold move, we call for the humanities to reach beyond the confines of universities and engage in the most urgent debates facing humanity today - in a multidisciplinary, transformative, and constructive way. This is a blueprint for how societal change can be inclusive and equitable for the good of humans and non-humans alike.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Preface
1 The need to recouple the humanities and social sciences with society
Reorienting the humanities and social sciences
2 The unique knowledge position of the humanities and social sciences
3 The methods of the humanities and social sciences
Broad concept of humanities and social sciences
Need for value-laden approaches
Pluralism of methods and approaches
Decentring and multi-perspectivity
Universalism as universalization
Revitalizing hermeneutics
Moral realism
Moral constitutivism
Phenomenology
Narratives and values
Law and legal critique
4 The humanities and social sciences will only succeed if they pursue an integrative approach
5 Reconfiguring institutions – Towards a culture of creativity
6 Towards a New Enlightenment
Key principles
Key challenges
Open questions guiding the way forward
7 Suggestions for the way ahead
Coping with complexity
Welcoming otherness
Ecologizing systemically
Reconfiguring public health
Reconciling technology and culture
Summary
Notes
References
About the authors