Value of the Humanities and Arts

2016

During the past few decades, the arts and humanities in the West- ern world have been challenged by a strange contradiction between two very different stories about their raison d’etre and value. ...

The visual arts are often considered to be distinct from the humanities, as image is to text and practice is to theory. I want to open for discussion another perspective where the arts and humanities are imagined as inseparable and integrated activities. In both areas we are introduced to special conceptual worlds, as Wittgenstein once put it, that both challenge and enlarge our basic human capacities for interpretation and evaluation. This text was first presented as a Humanities Day lecture at the University of Chicago on 18 October 2014. Video documentation can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlJhuRMxXJg

International Congress Imagine There Were No Humanities, Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies “Artes Liberales”, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, 9-10/06/2015

2016

This paper, or, rather, talk, thinks about the idea of the humanities which is, I think, a strangely neglected topic. It prepares the way for a realist account or theory of the humanities, partly by sketching out the difficulties and possibilities that this involves.

isara solutions, 2023

1) Art defines how we see the world. Art and artists were the first to be affected by the unprecedented technological development in the digital media that has been emerged since the late 1950s till date in which called "The Digital Revolution". This was in addition to the emergence of the World Wide Web, which became an important factor for the global communication since the mid-1990s. 2) Relationship within the Arts and Humanities streams-While some disciplines like English, Economics, Literature, Psychology are by nature more easily connected to history, all disciplines can be connected to History in one or another way. This is because History is "human" in nature and deals with the experiences of humanity. Karl Marx, the most influential philosophers of the modern era believed that all of history was ultimately "fuelled" by Economics. He taught that economic class struggles caused the "wheels" of history to move wars and other historical events were ultimately caused by Economics. For Marx, history cannot be understood except through an economic lens.

Journal of Literature and Art Studies, 2017

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Sign Systems Studies, 2008