21st-century humanities: Art, complexity, and interdisciplinarity
Abstract: This article contends that the evolution toward interdisciplinary collaboration that we are witnessing in the sciences must also occur in the humanities to ensure their very survival. That is, humanists must be open to working with scientists and social scientists interested in similar research questions and vice versa. Digital humanities is a positive first step. Complexity science should be the next step. Even though much of the ground-breaking work in complexity science has been done in the natural sciences and mathematics, it can, if critically adapted, provide the needed metaphor for a broad integration of disciplines, humanistic and otherwise. Given its almost a-disciplinary nature, a complexity approach to the research problems in the humanities necessarily breaks down silos. Moreover, it can restore and reframe the seamless intellectual fabric sought by researchers before the atomization of the various disciplines in the nineteenthcentury academy.
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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21st-century humanities: Art, complexity, and interdisciplinarity ; volume:22 ; number:2 ; year:2012 ; pages:111-121 ; extent:11
Human affairs ; 22, Heft 2 (2012), 111-121 (gesamt 11)
- Creator
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Youngman, Paul
- DOI
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10.2478/s13374-012-0011-6
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2404281558511.567243173048
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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14.08.2025, 11:03 AM CEST
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