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A Call to Arms
19. Oktober 2008
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This courageous and compelling volume aims to bring about a revolution in Literary Studies comparable to what happened years ago to the sister discipline of Linguistics, when the researches of Sapir, Bloomfield, Harris, and many others converted it to a legitimate branch of the Social Sciences with all the attention to scientific method that such membership implies.
Gottschall convincingly delineates the pretentiousness and impenetrability of current literary studies, leading to a precipitous decline in their status and achievements. He proposes a scientization of such studies, dealing in the first part of his book with theory, methods, and attitude. In the second part he describes experiments which he has elaborated and conducted, exemplifying the use of the scientific method which he advocates.
Gottschall's reading is wide, and his documentation provides an excellent conspectus of research in this and related areas. He thus gives the reader who may lack background an entry into the bases of the position he holds. This factor alone makes the book of great value to the general reader who is interested in the better understanding of our complex world. I congratulate the author on this clear and convincing exposition.
Gottschall convincingly delineates the pretentiousness and impenetrability of current literary studies, leading to a precipitous decline in their status and achievements. He proposes a scientization of such studies, dealing in the first part of his book with theory, methods, and attitude. In the second part he describes experiments which he has elaborated and conducted, exemplifying the use of the scientific method which he advocates.
Gottschall's reading is wide, and his documentation provides an excellent conspectus of research in this and related areas. He thus gives the reader who may lack background an entry into the bases of the position he holds. This factor alone makes the book of great value to the general reader who is interested in the better understanding of our complex world. I congratulate the author on this clear and convincing exposition.
Required Reading
17. Februar 2012
Format:Taschenbuch
I received this book from a professor who indicated that "if I were interested in integrating science and the humanities I needed to review this work." Accustomed to various re-imaginings of Marx or Freud littered with ever-more complicated jargon and impenetrable arguments, I assumed it was more of the same. Imagine my surprise when I started to read the book and discovered that the arguments were lucid, jargon free, efficiently organized, and designed to re-integrate the humanities with other academic disciplines.
In a lit theory class I was roundly castigated for suggesting that biology (imagine that!) plays an important role in human development and gender identification. When I suggested that Judith Butler's theories about gender were not only controversial, but largely unsupported in the scientific community, you'd think I'd just informed a class that Santa Claus didn't exist.
It was therefore refreshing to me to discover a book that recognizes work done outside humanities departments and that while Marx and Freud are doubtless important figures in intellectual development, they are largely historical figures and don't have much purchase in political science or economics (Marx) or modern neuroscience (Freud).
It's stunning that English departments are often dominated by figures that did their work in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It's as if no one has thought about these issues since then. I suspect that's why the humanities have languished in a backwater for the past twenty or thirty years stuck in ever-ending non-theorizing. Still, the humanities have important things to offer the quest for knowledge. And this book goes a long way toward offering a potential path that might be taken to re-integrate work in the humanities with the work that's proceeding in other academic disciplines.
I am not suggesting that we abandon Derrida or Lacan or Butler or Barthes or Frye or any of the other folks who have dominated the literary landscape. Nor do I discount the work of people like Butler who've offered important critiques of the status quo. What I do believe, however, is that this book ought to stand beside those texts as required reading. It offers important insights to the world of humanities...how they might sharpen their theories and strengthen their arguments and improve their means of analysing texts. I have yet to read a more important book on the future of modern literary theory.
In a lit theory class I was roundly castigated for suggesting that biology (imagine that!) plays an important role in human development and gender identification. When I suggested that Judith Butler's theories about gender were not only controversial, but largely unsupported in the scientific community, you'd think I'd just informed a class that Santa Claus didn't exist.
It was therefore refreshing to me to discover a book that recognizes work done outside humanities departments and that while Marx and Freud are doubtless important figures in intellectual development, they are largely historical figures and don't have much purchase in political science or economics (Marx) or modern neuroscience (Freud).
It's stunning that English departments are often dominated by figures that did their work in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It's as if no one has thought about these issues since then. I suspect that's why the humanities have languished in a backwater for the past twenty or thirty years stuck in ever-ending non-theorizing. Still, the humanities have important things to offer the quest for knowledge. And this book goes a long way toward offering a potential path that might be taken to re-integrate work in the humanities with the work that's proceeding in other academic disciplines.
I am not suggesting that we abandon Derrida or Lacan or Butler or Barthes or Frye or any of the other folks who have dominated the literary landscape. Nor do I discount the work of people like Butler who've offered important critiques of the status quo. What I do believe, however, is that this book ought to stand beside those texts as required reading. It offers important insights to the world of humanities...how they might sharpen their theories and strengthen their arguments and improve their means of analysing texts. I have yet to read a more important book on the future of modern literary theory.
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