Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    From $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Towards a New Enlightenment – The Case for Future-Oriented Humanities
    Towards a New Enlightenment – The Case for Future-Oriented Humanities
    Towards a New Enlightenment – The Case for Future-Oriented Humanities
    Ebook114 pages1 hour

    Towards a New Enlightenment – The Case for Future-Oriented Humanities

    By Markus Gabriel, Christoph Horn, Anna Katsman and

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    What role can the humanities play in shaping our common future? What are the values that guide us in the 21st century? How can we unleash the potential the humanities offer in a time of multiple crises? This volume tackles some of these fundamental questions, acknowledging and developing the changing role of academic discourse in a turbulent world. This timely book argues that the humanities engender conceptual tools that are capable of reconciling theory and practice. In a bold move, we call for the humanities to reach beyond the confines of universities and engage in the most urgent debates facing humanity today – in a multidisciplinary, transformative, and constructive way. This is a blueprint for how societal change can be inclusive and equitable for the good of humans and non-humans alike.

    LanguageEnglish
    Publishertranscript Verlag
    Release dateSep 22, 2022
    ISBN9783732865703
    Towards a New Enlightenment – The Case for Future-Oriented Humanities
    Author

    Markus Gabriel

    Markus Gabriel ist einer der beiden Academic Directors am THE NEW INSTITUTE und von 2021 bis 2023 Chair des Programms »The Foundations of Value and Values«. Er hat an der Universität Bonn den Lehrstuhl für Erkenntnistheorie, Philosophie der Neuzeit und der Gegenwart inne.

    Related to Towards a New Enlightenment – The Case for Future-Oriented Humanities

    Titles in the series (2)

    View More
    View More

    Related ebooks

    Popular Culture & Media Studies For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • UNLIMITED

      The End Of The End Of History

      Sep 25, 2023

      The End Of The End Of History
      5 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      World Out Of Balance

      Apr 22, 2019

      World Out Of Balance
      1 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Conflict Of Self

      Sep 25, 2023

      The Conflict Of Self
      2 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Reading Soviet Sci-Fi At The End Of The World

      Sep 26, 2022

      What I found was not a roadmap for escaping my circumstances but a strategy for how to operate within them. The post Reading Soviet Sci-Fi at the End of the World appeared first on The Millions.

      12 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Heather Widdows: The Ugly Side of Beauty

      Jan 30, 2019

      The philosopher on how our appearance intolerance hinders ideas and human flourishing The post Heather Widdows: The Ugly Side of Beauty appeared first on Guernica.

      11 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      The Human League

      May 28, 2021

      The Human League
      3 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Ecofeminist World Building

      Mar 12, 2019

      Ecofeminist World Building
      7 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Sydney Contemporary 2022

      Aug 31, 2022

      Sydney Contemporary 2022
      3 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Art Of The Possible

      Sep 1, 2018

      Art Of The Possible
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Lessons From Life

      Sep 30, 2021

      Lessons From Life
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      And God Said

      Apr 10, 2022

      One day, with no discernable fanfare, God “spoke” to each person on the planet Earth. The message made its way into the minds of every man, woman, and child, probably including babies in the womb (but how could that possibly be verified?). From Katma

      6 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      A Show Of Hands

      Sep 5, 2022

      A Show Of Hands
      10 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Conversations

      Jan 24, 2021

      Conversations
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Exhibition

      Oct 8, 2020

      Exhibition
      3 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Bad Students, Gudskuls

      May 11, 2022

      Bad Students, Gudskuls
      5 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Inspired to Write

      Jun 30, 2021

      Inspired to Write
      4 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      Tips For Scientists To Work Effectively With Communities

      Apr 11, 2023

      How can scientists best serve communities with their expertise? Science Network guest blogger Nancy Holt provides her experience and tips.

      2 min read

    • UNLIMITED

      A Resilient Profession?

      Jul 27, 2020

      A Resilient Profession?
      6 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Towards a New Enlightenment – The Case for Future-Oriented Humanities

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Towards a New Enlightenment – The Case for Future-Oriented Humanities - Markus Gabriel

      cover.jpg

      The book series THE NEW INSTITUTE.Interventions aims at strengthening the voice of the humanities in public and political discourse. Its publications present the work of the fellows of THE NEW INSTITUTE, based in Hamburg, which brings together changemakers from academia, activism, the arts, media, government, and business to collectively generate new ideas and solutions for the most pressing problems facing humanity today. By linking up such diverse perspectives and mindsets in a highly collaborative effort, THE NEW INSTITUTE strives to create fresh, groundbreaking approaches for tackling some of the most complex challenges of our time. Through such a collectively produced body of knowledge that includes both astute analyses and fundamental reconfigurations in various key areas of society, our Interventions will hopefully provoke and fuel constructive debates across disciplinary and sectoral boundaries. All texts in the series are published Open Access under a CC license to facilitate the widest possible reach for these conceptual and practical impulses.

      Towards a New Enlightenment – The Case for Future-Oriented Humanities

      Markus Gabriel, Christoph Horn, Anna Katsman, Wilhelm Krull, Anna Luisa Lippold, Corine Pelluchon, Ingo Venzke

      Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

      The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available in the Internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de

      This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (BY-SA) which means that the text may be remixed, build upon and be distributed, provided credit is given to the author and that copies or adaptations of the work are released under the same or similar license.

      For details go to https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons license terms for re-use do not apply to any content (such as graphs, figures, photos, excerpts, etc.) not original to the Open Access publication and further permission may be required from the rights holder. The obligation to research and clear permission lies solely with the party re-using the material.

      First published in 2022 by transcript Verlag, Bielefeld

      © Markus Gabriel, Christoph Horn, Anna Katsman, Wilhelm Krull, Anna Luisa Lippold, Corine Pelluchon, Ingo Venzke

      Cover layout: Maria Arndt, Bielefeld

      Copy-editing: Joan Lace, Saffron Walden

      Layout (adaptation) and typeset: Michael Rauscher, Bielefeld

      Printed by Friedrich Pustet GmbH & Co. KG, Regensburg

      Print-ISBN: 978-3-8376-6570-3

      PDF-ISBN: 978-3-8394-6570-7

      EPUB-ISBN: 978-3-7328-6570-3

      https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839465707

      ISSN of series: 2751-9619

      eISSN of series: 2751-9627

      Contents

      Preface

      1The need to recouple the humanities and social sciences with society

      Reorienting the humanities and social sciences

      2The unique knowledge position of the humanities and social sciences

      3The methods of the humanities and social sciences

      Broad concept of humanities and social sciences

      Need for value-laden approaches

      Pluralism of methods and approaches

      Decentring and multi-perspectivity

      Universalism as universalization

      Revitalizing hermeneutics

      Moral realism

      Moral constitutivism

      Phenomenology

      Narratives and values

      Law and legal critique

      4The humanities and social sciences will only succeed if they pursue an integrative approach

      5Reconfiguring institutions – Towards a culture of creativity

      6Towards a New Enlightenment

      Key principles

      Key challenges

      Open questions guiding the way forward

      7Suggestions for the way ahead

      Coping with complexity

      Welcoming otherness

      Ecologizing systemically

      Reconfiguring public health

      Reconciling technology and culture

      Summary

      Notes

      References

      About the authors

      Preface

      In many respects our world is out of balance. The gaps are widening between technological advancements and social progress, between economic success and environmental degradation, and between research-based insights and political decision-making. They are complemented by a rapid loss of biodiversity, a growing trend towards privatization and commercialization of common goods, and last but not least by growing inequality, uncertainty, and complexity involved in meeting the challenges ahead of us.

      When we look at the current state of affairs, the mounting crises, the Russian–Ukrainian war, and the atrocities that go with it, we surely have many reasons to give in to feelings of pessimism and despair. The downward spiral of adverse developments appears to dominate our perception. And yet, as scholars as well as concerned citizens we can no longer ignore the fact that it is the responsibility of our generation to come up with new ideas and viable concepts that can pave the way for an urgently needed transformation of our lifestyles, modes of production, and societies at large.

      By courageously, critically, and creatively reflecting on various imbalances and their root causes as well as by trying to open up pathways to viable solutions for at least some of the huge problems we are confronted with, scholars and practitioners from various walks of life can help to change course in the direction of a more just, ecologically sound, and economically sustainable future. This holds particularly true when they jointly embark upon a journey focused on thoroughly rethinking and reconfiguring current practices.

      It is against this background that the first cohort of fellows at THE NEW INSTITUTE involved in the start-up phase of our programme ‘Foundations of Value and Values’ set out to develop a conceptual and strategic framework for an intellectually ambitious attempt at positioning the humanities in the wider context of bringing about systemic change. Despite the professional diversity of the group, fellows succeeded in focusing on their commonalities alongside their differences. This discussion paper is itself proof of the integrative capacity of the humanities. Building on their epistemic foundations and specific expertise, as well as their boldness and persistence, the humanities will nevertheless have to enlarge the scope and scale of their activities beyond understanding past and present phenomena towards more future-oriented approaches.

      All of this requires a change of perspectives not only within the humanities themselves but also in the respective ecosystems of knowledge production at large. Even nowadays, in many debates focusing on research and innovation agendas, the humanities are often seen as less useful when it comes to shaping the future. While science and engineering are widely accepted as the key drivers of economic and technological progress, the humanities seem to lack a clear orientation towards the major challenges ahead of us. This perception of a set of decoupled knowledge domains urgently needs to be changed, last but not least in view of the multiple, interwoven crises we are confronted with.

      To ultimately realize their potential as strongholds of reflexivity, multi-perspectivity, and normativity, the humanities will have to proactively take on the task of adopting a conceptual and strategic framework that puts them centre stage when it comes to tackling such crucial questions for our common future as: What is a sustainable value system for the 21st century? How can we create a common way forward towards a New Enlightenment? When and why are people prepared to change their behaviour and to reconfigure their lifestyles in favour of a sustainable future for humankind and our planet? Last but not least, the provision of adequate

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1