Mapping Frontier Research in the Humanities

Knowledge production in academia today is burgeoning and increasingly interdisciplinary in nature. Research within the humanities is no exception: it is distributed across a variety of methodic styles of research and increasingly involves interactions with fields outside the narrow confines of the university. As a result, the notion of liberal arts and humanities within Western universities is undergoing profound transformations. In Mapping Frontier Research in the Humanities, the contributors explore this transformative process. What are the implications, both for the modes of research and for the organisation of the humanities and higher education?

The volume explores the intra- and extra-academic engagement of humanities researchers, their styles of research, and exemplifies their interdisciplinary character. The humanities are shaping debates about culture and identity, but how? Has neuroscience changed the humanities? What do they tell us about 'hypes' and economic 'bubbles'? What is their international agenda? Drawing on a number of case studies from the humanities, the perceived divide between classical and 'post-academic' modes of research can be captured by a republican theory of the humanities. Avoiding simple mechanical metrics, the contributors suggest a heuristic appreciation of different types of impact and styles of research. From this perspective, a more composite picture of research on human culture, language and history emerges. It goes beyond “rational agents”, and situates humanities research in more complex landscapes of collective identities, networks, and constraints that open for new forms of intellectual leadership in the 21st century.

Claus Emmeche is Associate Professor in the Center for the Philosophy of Nature and Science Studies at the Department of Science Education, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

David Budtz Pedersen is Associate Project Manager of Humanomics in the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication's Philosophy Section at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Frederik Stjernfelt is Professor of Semiotics, the History of Ideas and the Theory of Science in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Series Editor's Foreword

Introduction: Mapping the Humanities
Part I: Framing Patterns, Tendencies and Generalities
1. Disciplinary Knowledge Production and Interdisciplinary Humanities, David Budtz Pedersen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Frederik Stjernfelt (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) and Claus Emmeche (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
2. Research Styles and Extra-Academic Engagement of Humanities Researchers, Lasse Johansson (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) and Jonas Grønvad (Humanomics Research Group, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
3. Methodologies in the Humanities, Svend Østergaard (University of Aarhus, Denmark) and Peter Lau Torst Nielsen (University of Aarhus, Denmark)
Part II: Subtleties, Oddities, Particularities
4. Culture and Culturalism, Frederik Stjernfelt (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
5. The Culture Debate between Terror Threats, Free Speech and Humanism, Esther Oluffa Pedersen (University of Roskilde, Denmark)
6. Modes of Interdisciplinarity in the Humanities, Claus Emmeche (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
7. Transdisciplinary and Transmedial Research as Collaborative Knowledge Production, Kristian Moltke Martiny (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Phie Ambo (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)and David Budtz Pedersen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
8. Humanities and Neuroscience, Magnus Biilmann (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)and Simo Køppe (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
9. Bubbles, Science and Democracy, Vincent Fella Hendricks (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Part III: Knowing Future Unknowns
10. Beyond Neo-liberal University Governance, David Budtz Pedersen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
11. Transforming the Humanities from a National to an International Agenda, Uffe Østergaard (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)
12. Gentle Advice to Knowledge Managers, HuGroup (Humanomics Research Group, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

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