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Progress in the humanities?
comparing the objects of culture and science
by Volney Patrick Gay
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Progress in the humanities?: comparing the objects of culture and science
2010, Columbia University Press
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Table of Contents
Humanists and their subject matters
The task of the humanities: looking into the deep
A new answer
Magnifying truths: two slide shows
Searching for the hero: the one who knows
Large-scale research in the humanities
20mule team
Choir
Sports team
Lifeboat
Distributed computing
Big science
Skunk works: discovery at the edges
Self-understanding as the object of humanistic research
Deep language: the anxiety of translation
Magnification and cultural objects
Fantasies of depth: magnifying cultural objects
Horizontal analyses in art criticism
Psychotherapy: part science, part humanities, mostly art
John Updike, rabbit reruns
Science, art, metapsychology, and magnification
Back to Freud, back to the Greeks!
What counts as progress in the humanities?
Back to Freud, back to the Greeks!
Progress in Greek philosophy, literature, and mathematics
Development and progress in Greek sculpture
Greek literature, more serious than history
Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus
Progress in Greek mathematics: incommensurability
Seven of nine and five of nine
Science fiction and psychiatry
Mapping the boundaries of human being
Diagnosing the borderline personality: five of nine symptoms
On the pleasures of science fiction: jumping into the abyss
Progress as development of the self: from Greek cult to Greek theater
Canals on mars: exploring imaginary worlds
Virtual civilizations: Percival Lowell and the Martian Canals
Pathological science: the limits of vision
ESP at Duke: the story of J. Rhine
Cargo cults and the ethics of science
Thomas MacAulay and English destiny: history as grand narrative
Searching for essences: Freud and Wittgenstein
Seeing into the psyche: Freud's diagrams
Wittgenstein and sharp focusing
Magnifying truths in philosophical investigations
The magnification fantasy and ideological leanings
Cultural artifacts and reductionism
Learning about the self: new horizons
Seeing with the brain
Learning from the market: reason as an interpersonal process
High art and the power to guess the unseen from the seen
Does high art convey knowledge?
Tragedy and mourning as progress
The power to guess the unseen from the seen
Reality testing as an intrapsychic process
Looking outward, three movies
Blow up
High anxiety
The conversation
Isolating valid signals, making the right cut
Magnification in humanistic theory.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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