Open AccessRADIKAL FORTOLKNING: Humanistisk teori ved årtusindskiftet
Author(s) -
Kirsten Hastrup
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
antropologi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2596-5425
pISSN - 0906-3021
DOI - 10.7146/ta.v0i40.115127
Subject(s) - objectivism , naturalism , object (grammar) , epistemology , task (project management) , interpretation (philosophy) , the renaissance , philosophy , discipline , sociology , psychology , art history , art , social science , linguistics , engineering , systems engineering
The renaissance view of humans as ffee and
responsible agents is the starting point for
this article that seeks to delineate the task of
the humanities today, at an age which has had
to accept the fail of Objectivism. The time is
marked by a switch from seeing the task of
science in general as one of clarifying what is
already there, in nature, to seeing it as a kind
of radical interpretation that adds its own
layer of understanding, and thereby of
reality, to the object. The conclusion is that
the object of study for the human Sciences
cannot and should not be seen in naturalistic
terms; instead we have to work with fluid
objects and ontologies that seriously
question the disciplinary boundaries
established in the nineteenth century.