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The Useful Uselessness of the Humanities 人文学科的无用之处
Pub Date : 2008-01-01 DOI: 10.1558/EXPO.V2I1.019
D. Roochnik
Stanley Fish responds to the question with which he titles his essay, " how Will the humanities Save Us? " by objecting to its implicit assumption. As he puts it, " It is not the business of the humanities to save us. " What, then, do they do? Fish answers: They don't do anything, if by " do " is meant bring about effects in the world. And if they don't bring about effects in the world they cannot be justified except in relation to the pleasure they give to those who enjoy them. his voice here is not cynical, nor does he counsel despair, for he argues that it is precisely this doing-nothing, this inherent uselessness, of the humanities that brings honor to its subject. Justification, after all, confers value on an activity from a perspective outside its performance. An activity that cannot be justified is an activity that refuses to regard itself as instrumental to some larger good. The humanities are their own good. There is nothing more to say, and anything that is said…diminishes the object of its supposed praise. With these remarks Fish comes perilously close to being right. But he's not there yet. This is because he does not quite understand how in " doing " nothing, in failing to be useful or justifiable by reference to some value external to themselves, the humanities are actually useful. Their usefulness is indirect, no doubt minimal, and perhaps even paradoxical, but useful they nonetheless are. Such, at least, is the thesis I will propose. Full disclosure: the view I endorse actually belongs to Aristotle. And so, after briefly sketching a few of Fish's arguments, I will devote the bulk of this short paper to some reflections about his Metaphysics and his Politics. In doing so, I will be forced to employ several Aristotelian notions that time will allow me neither to defend nor even to elaborate. I must, therefore, ask for the reader's willingness to entertain the propo
斯坦利·费什(Stanley Fish)回答了他的文章题目“人文学科将如何拯救我们?”通过反对其隐含的假设。正如他所说,“拯救我们不是人文学科的职责。”那么,他们会怎么做呢?鱼回答:它们什么也不做,如果“做”是指给世界带来影响的话。如果它们没有给世界带来影响,它们就不能被证明是正当的,除非它们给那些享受它们的人带来了快乐。在这里,他的声音不是愤世嫉俗,也不是鼓吹绝望,因为他认为,正是人文学科的这种无所作为,这种固有的无用,给它的学科带来了荣誉。毕竟,辩护是从行为表现之外的角度赋予活动价值的。一项不能被证明是正当的活动是一项拒绝将自己视为某种更大利益的工具的活动。人文学科本身是有好处的。没有什么可说的了,而说的任何话……都削弱了它本应受到赞扬的对象。Fish的这番话几乎是对的。但他还没到那一步。这是因为他不太明白,人文学科“什么都不做”,无法用自身之外的某种价值来证明自己是有用的,而人文学科实际上是有用的。它们的作用是间接的,毫无疑问是最小的,甚至可能是矛盾的,但它们仍然有用。至少,这是我要提出的论点。完全披露:我赞同的观点实际上属于亚里士多德。因此,在简要概述了费什的一些论点之后,我将用这篇短文的大部分篇幅来思考他的《形而上学》和《政治学》。在这样做的过程中,我将被迫使用几个亚里士多德的概念,时间不允许我辩护甚至阐述。因此,我必须请求读者愿意接受这个提议
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Overheard in the Academy: Stanley Fish on the Humanities 无意中听到学院:斯坦利·费什谈人文科学
Pub Date : 2008-01-01 DOI: 10.1558/EXPO.V2I1.005
B. Prusak
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The “Reflexive Humanities” “反思性人文”
Pub Date : 2008-01-01 DOI: 10.1558/EXPO.V2I1.027
Vicki Tromanhauser
A recent article in The New York Review of Books about affluence in America offered sobering news for today's college students and the parents funding their education. Its assessment of the value of higher education featured two tables, one documenting skyrocketing tuitions over the last thirty years and another estimating what college degrees are worth in terms of yearly income (hacker 2007, 32, 33). The news does not look good, and in particular for the humanities. So it is no surprise that rising costs of higher education have pressed the humanities into an increasingly defensive posture and prompted concerns about their ability to earn their keep among neighboring disciplines with more immediately practical applications to advertise. Such trends bespeak a cultural preoccupation with the economic bottom line and the growing perception of education as a saleable commodity whose investors have every right to expect a material return. When value is conceived in purely financial terms, the humanities are destined to fare rather poorly. It is in this defensive climate that Stanley Fish in his recent New York Times piece interjects his deliberately provocative claim: " To the question 'of what use are the humanities?', the only honest answer is none whatsoever. " Fish's small concession of the intrinsic pleasures the humanities bring to those who practice them is a slim peg on which to hang an entire tradition of intellectual inquiry and at the same time appears suspiciously cozy with the pressures of the very market forces from which he seeks to protect humanities departments. measuring the value of the humanities solely in terms of the pleasure they yield those who study them can prove a limiting proposition that, as mark Edmund-son warns, educators in the classroom have been inclined to take all too literally (Edmundson 1997). The culture of consumption has
《纽约书评》(New York Review of Books)最近发表的一篇关于美国富裕状况的文章,给当今的大学生和资助他们教育的父母带来了发人深省的消息。它对高等教育价值的评估以两张表为特色,一张表记录了过去30年飙升的学费,另一张表估计了大学学位的年收入(hacker 2007, 32,33)。这个消息看起来不太好,尤其是人文学科。因此,毫不奇怪,高等教育成本的上升迫使人文学科采取了越来越强的防御姿态,并引发了人们对人文学科能否在邻近学科中赚取生计的担忧,这些学科有更直接的实际应用可以宣传。这样的趋势表明,一种对经济底线的文化关注,以及越来越多的人认为,教育是一种可销售的商品,投资者完全有权期望获得物质回报。如果纯粹从财务角度来考虑价值,人文学科注定会表现得相当糟糕。正是在这种防御氛围下,斯坦利·费什(Stanley Fish)在《纽约时报》(New York Times)最近发表的一篇文章中故意提出了挑衅性的主张:“对于‘人文学科有什么用?’,唯一诚实的回答是一点也没有。”费什对人文学科带给那些从事人文学科的人的内在乐趣的小小让步,是将整个知识探索传统挂在上面的一个纤细的挂钩,与此同时,他试图保护人文学科免受市场力量的压力,却显得令人怀疑地安逸。如果仅仅根据人文学科给学习者带来的快乐来衡量人文学科的价值,可能会证明一个有局限性的命题,正如马克·埃德蒙森(mark Edmundson)所警告的那样,课堂上的教育者往往太过拘于字面意思(埃德蒙森,1997)。消费文化已经
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Care of the Soul: Service-Learning and the Value of the Humanities 关怀心灵:服务学习与人文价值
Pub Date : 2008-01-01 DOI: 10.1558/EXPO.V2I1.007
James Boettcher
contemporary debates about the proper role of the humanities in college and university education have been shaped by a multitude of exi-gencies and trends both within and outside of the academy, from ordinary budgetary constraints to changing institutional and professional norms, and from increasingly consumerist attitudes about education to the emergence of new media and communications technology. Value pluralism, recognition of the importance of cultural diversity, and processes of globalization have led to ongoing and sometimes quite heated discussion about curricular content. moreover, the remarkable achievements of the natural sciences, which have yielded so many practical gains, only heighten the anxiety of those who would seek to determine just what " use " the humanities serve. While some of the terminology in these debates may be new—witness the pressure on instructors across disciplines to specify measurable " learning objectives " and " outcomes assessments " —the underlying questions are not so different from those which motivated matthew Arnold's classic defense of the humanities over a century ago. The " humane letters, " Arnold argues, uniquely engage our emotions and exercise a valuable influence on our conduct and sense of beauty. Arnold's conclusion is that the humanities are not " in much actual danger of being thrust out from their leading place in education…So long as human nature is what it is, their attractions will remain irresistible " (Arnold 1975, 72). According to a new book by Anthony Kronman, the humanities have lost not only their leading position in post-secondary education, but, more important, their relevance in guiding students through a critical examination of what it means to live a good life as a human being (Kronman 2007). Kronman places much of the blame for this
当代关于人文学科在学院和大学教育中的适当作用的辩论,受到学院内外众多紧急情况和趋势的影响,从普通的预算限制到不断变化的制度和专业规范,从对教育日益增长的消费主义态度到新媒体和通信技术的出现。价值观多元化、对文化多样性重要性的认识以及全球化进程导致了对课程内容的持续讨论,有时甚至是非常激烈的讨论。此外,自然科学的卓越成就产生了如此多的实际成果,这只会加剧那些试图确定人文学科究竟有什么“用途”的人的焦虑。虽然在这些辩论的一些术语可能新的目击者跨学科导师指定的压力可衡量的“学习目标”和“结果评估”——潜在的问题并不是非常不同于那些动机马修·阿诺德的人文经典防御一个多世纪。阿诺德认为,“人文信件”独特地吸引了我们的情感,对我们的行为和美感产生了宝贵的影响。阿诺德的结论是,人文学科并没有“被挤出其在教育中的主导地位的实际危险……只要人类本性不变,它们的吸引力将保持不可抗拒的”(阿诺德1975,72)。根据安东尼·克朗曼(Anthony Kronman)的一本新书,人文学科不仅在高等教育中失去了主导地位,更重要的是,人文学科在引导学生批判性地思考作为一个人过好生活意味着什么方面失去了相关性(克朗曼2007)。Kronman对此负有很大责任
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On Reading St. Augustine’s Confessions 解读圣奥古斯丁的《忏悔录
Pub Date : 2008-01-01 DOI: 10.1558/EXPO.V2I1.059
T. Breyfogle
This essay is intended as a guide for beginning readers of Augustine, for teachers charged with helping these readers understand Augustine, and for those interested in a problem that confronted Augustine first as a reader and eventually as an author: how do books help us understand ourselves even as we understand their author? A famously dysfunctional reader, Don Quixote de la Mancha, opens the essay as an example of a soul imprisoned by books because subject to slavish imitation. With this caution firmly in view, I offer a series of tips on how readers of the Confessions can approach the work with appropriate freshness, developing strategies for reading not only Augustine but also other great authors as well. I stress especially the dialogical character of Confessions and, with it, Augustine’s qualified continuity with the Platonic-Socratic tradition of text-as-conversation. In so doing, I emphasize Augustine’s emerging pedagogy based on his understanding of the function of signs and the affective character of the poetic imagination. In this way, Augustine translates the Socratic tradition into a distinctively Christian idiom while providing a prospective antidote to Quixote’s misplaced flights of intellectual and moral fancy, inviting the reader to begin his own independent spiritual journey.
这篇文章旨在为奥古斯丁的初级读者提供指南,为帮助这些读者理解奥古斯丁的教师提供指南,为那些对奥古斯丁首先作为读者最终作为作者所面临的问题感兴趣的人提供指南:书籍如何帮助我们理解自己,即使我们理解它们的作者?一个出了名的功能失调的读者,堂吉诃德·德·拉·曼查,在这篇文章的开头,作为一个被书囚禁的灵魂的例子,因为他受制于盲目的模仿。带着这种谨慎的观点,我提供了一系列的建议,告诉读者如何以适当的新鲜感来阅读《忏悔记》,制定阅读奥古斯丁和其他伟大作家的策略。我特别强调《忏悔录》的对话特征,以及奥古斯丁对柏拉图-苏格拉底文本即对话传统的有条件的延续。在这样做的过程中,我强调奥古斯丁基于他对符号的功能和诗意想象的情感特征的理解的新兴教学法。通过这种方式,奥古斯丁将苏格拉底的传统翻译成一种独特的基督教习语,同时为堂吉诃德错位的智力和道德幻想提供了一种未来的解药,邀请读者开始他自己独立的精神之旅。
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Kathryn Hughes, The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. $29.95 cloth 凯瑟琳·休斯,《比顿夫人的短暂一生》。纽约:Alfred A. Knopf, 2006。布29.95美元
Pub Date : 2007-07-07 DOI: 10.1558/EXPO.V1I2.233
M. Hill
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Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation: The Beginning of our Religious Tradition . Alfred A. Knopf. New York/Toronto, 2006. pp. 469 凯伦·阿姆斯特朗,《伟大的转变:我们宗教传统的开始》。阿尔弗雷德·a·克诺夫。纽约/多伦多,2006年。469页。
Pub Date : 2007-07-07 DOI: 10.1558/EXPO.V1I2.229
Thomas Cattoi
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The Piety of Socrates and Maimonides: Doing God's Work on Earth 苏格拉底和迈蒙尼德的虔诚:在地球上做上帝的工作
Pub Date : 2007-07-07 DOI: 10.1558/EXPO.V1I2.141
Roslyn Weiss
Socrates and Maimonides are paragons of piety. They devote their lives to divine service, notwithstanding their perception that an unbridgeable chasm separates the divine from the human. At great personal cost they take on God’s tasks—that is, the tasks that God would do if only He weren’t God. For Socrates, that work is to persuade people of the great value of their souls and consequently of the importance of justice and truth. For Maimonides, it is to encourage meticulous observance of Jewish law in its ritual and moral aspects, and to banish false and noxious views of God from the beliefs of even ordinary people. Neither Socrates nor Maimonides is content to foster only his own intellectual perfection—and therein lies their piety.
苏格拉底和迈蒙尼德是虔诚的典范。他们将自己的生命奉献给神的服务,尽管他们认为神与人之间存在着不可逾越的鸿沟。他们付出了巨大的个人代价,承担了神的任务——也就是说,只要神不是神,他就会做的任务。对苏格拉底来说,这项工作就是说服人们相信他们灵魂的伟大价值,以及正义和真理的重要性。对于迈蒙尼德来说,这是鼓励在仪式和道德方面严格遵守犹太律法,并从普通人的信仰中消除对上帝的错误和有害的看法。苏格拉底和迈蒙尼德都不满足于只培养自己智力上的完美,而这正是他们的虔诚所在。
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Humanity at the Turning Point 转折点上的人类
Pub Date : 2007-07-07 DOI: 10.1558/EXPO.V1I2.191
Dennis M. Weiss
This essay aims to demonstrate that the philosophical anthropology of Michael Landmann provides important critical tools and resources for intervening in the debate over the posthuman and the turning point that humanity faces due to the advancing powers of technologies such as genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, and cybernetics. Landmann’s view of the human being, which emphasizes the correlative conditions of creativity and culturality, freedom and determinacy, and malleability and fixity, provides the grounds on which to critique the current structure of the debate over the posthuman and resituate it in terms of our historicity and self-images. The rhetorically charged trope of the posthuman, with its emphasis on a break or turning point, risks cutting us off from significant resources for understanding human nature, including the resources of philosophical anthropology, and does not advance our understanding of our current situation and the current dilemmas human beings face in light of our advancing technological powers.
本文旨在证明,迈克尔·兰德曼(Michael Landmann)的哲学人类学为介入关于后人类的辩论和人类因基因工程、人工智能和控制论等技术的进步而面临的转折点提供了重要的关键工具和资源。兰德曼的人类观强调了创造力和文化性、自由和确定性、可塑性和固定性的相关条件,为批判当前关于后人类的争论结构提供了依据,并根据我们的历史性和自我形象对其进行了反思。后人类的修辞修辞,强调一个断裂或转折点,有可能切断我们理解人性的重要资源,包括哲学人类学的资源,也不会促进我们对我们的现状和当前人类面临的困境的理解,鉴于我们不断发展的技术力量。
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Sincerity and Seduction in 'Don Giovanni' 《唐璜》中的真诚与诱惑
Pub Date : 2007-07-07 DOI: 10.1558/EXPO.V1I2.173
James H. Johnson
This article considers the nature of seduction in Mozart's 'Don Giovanni' in light of recent musicological scholarship on the title character. Using Casanova's memoirs as a point of reference, Johnson argues that Mozart and Da Ponte deliberately employ a tone of sincerity that keeps to the surface in conveying Giovanni's words but reveals little about his motivations and withholds ultimate judgement about his character. Johnson contends that this tone of sincerity produces a powerfully seductive effect upon listeners as well and is a major factor in the polarized critical reception of the opera that continues to this day. The article combines musical, literary, and dramatic analysis and contains musical examples from ‘Don Giovanni’ and ‘Cosě fan tutte’.
本文考虑了诱惑的性质在莫扎特的“唐乔瓦尼”在最近的音乐学研究的标题字符的光。约翰逊以卡萨诺瓦的回忆录为参照,认为莫扎特和达庞特故意使用一种真诚的语气,在传达乔瓦尼的话时保持在表面,但几乎没有透露他的动机,也没有对他的性格做出最终的判断。约翰逊认为,这种真诚的语气也对听众产生了强大的诱惑作用,这是歌剧评论界两极分化的主要因素,这种两极分化一直持续到今天。文章结合了音乐,文学和戏剧分析,并包含音乐的例子,从“唐璜”和“cosvfan tutte”。
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