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        Date: 2018-12-21 10:50:22+00:00
        From: Bill Benzon 
        Subject: Re: [Humanist] 32.280: 'humanities' or 'human sciences'?

For what it's worth, Willard, the (in)famous 1966 structuralism conference at
Johns Hopkins was about "Les Langages Critiques et les Sciences de l'Homme".
I've always preferred "human sciences", but then I've never found much
use for the sciences/humanities opposition.

Bill Benzon

> On Dec 20, 2018, at 5:15 AM, Humanist  wrote:
>
>                  Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 32, No. 280.
>            Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London
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>        Date: 2018-12-20 10:05:05+00:00
>        From: Willard McCarty 
>        Subject: humanities or human sciences?
>
> This is a question about terminology, but I think not just that.
>
> In the interdisciplinary conversations and collaborations I have these
> days, I find that the term 'humanities', esp in a European context, is
> not quite right for accomplishing the reach I want to achieve to
> colleagues in anthropology, the interpretative social sciences and
> history, for example. So I've found myself using the term 'human
> sciences' (like Geisteswissenschaften, sciences humaines), at the same
> time aware that for those who break out in spots when in proximity to
> the natural sciences, this term may work against me. But I find that
> there's so much in common with all the scientiae, so much that we in or
> around or near digital humanities need to know about, that I also find
> myself caring less and less about causing allergic reactions.
>
> What do others do? I very much hope not strengthen the barricades in
> view of the elders who rule within the fortifications.
>
> Comments?
>
> Yours,
> WM
> --
> Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/),
> Professor emeritus, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London;
> Adjunct Professor, Western Sydney University; Editor, Interdisciplinary
> Science Reviews (www.tandfonline.com/loi/yisr20) and Humanist
> (www.dhhumanist.org)


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