At the Limits of the Concept

It is often forgotten that the humanities—which are made up of history, philosophy, literary studies, philology, rhetoric, art history, musicology, and linguistics—are characterized not so much by their objects of study, which can change over time, as by their focus on reading , the reading of verba...

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Published in:PMLA : Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 2016-03, Vol.131 (2), p.410-414
Main Author: WHITE, HAYDEN
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic discourse
Calculus
Connotation
Discourse analysis
Literary translation
Logic
Metalanguage
Philosophy
Prose
Scientific technical language
Why Philosophy?
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Summary:It is often forgotten that the humanities—which are made up of history, philosophy, literary studies, philology, rhetoric, art history, musicology, and linguistics—are characterized not so much by their objects of study, which can change over time, as by their focus on reading , the reading of verbal texts, primarily, but also reading in the sense of decoding and recoding images, sounds, and movements. The disciplines that compose the humanities teach different kinds of reading practices. The products of these disciplines for the most part belong to the class of prose and poetic discourses. This is why they may often look similar or even the same, especially when they are cast in the same mode: narrative, argumentative, descriptive, or expressive as the case may be.
ISSN:0030-8129
1938-1530
DOI:10.1632/pmla.2016.131.2.410