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Resisting neurosciences and sustaining history

Smith, Roger Renwick, Chris

History of the human sciences, 2019-02, Vol.32 (1), p.9-22 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Resisting neurosciences and sustaining history
Autor: Smith, Roger
Renwick, Chris
Assuntos: History ; Identity ; Knowledge ; Neurosciences ; Oral history ; Political action ; Social sciences
É parte de: History of the human sciences, 2019-02, Vol.32 (1), p.9-22
Descrição: The article began life as, and retains the character of, spoken argument for not allowing the neurosciences to shape the agenda of the history of the human sciences. This argument is then used to suggest purposes and content for the journal, History of the Human Sciences. The style is rhetorical, even polemical, but open-ended. I challenge two clichés about the neurosciences, that they intellectually challenge other areas of knowledge, and that they are reconfiguring the human with the notion of ‘brainhood’. The suggestion is that the real challenges lie elsewhere; specifically with understanding the relations of different forms of knowledge and making it conceivable by political action, or simply mode of life, to implement one way of being human rather than another. The conclusion re-asserts the value of the heading, ‘history of the human sciences’, and of the value of the journal with this name, as a forum in which to reflect on the identity and relations of forms of knowledge about ‘the human’ in all their variety.
Editor: London, England: SAGE Publications
Idioma: Inglês

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