Professor Jerome McGann - Truth and Method; or Humanities Scholarship as a Science of Exceptions
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English - June 15, 2015 09:52 - 49 minutes - 1.08 GB Video - ★★★ - 1 ratingHistory Arts books culture news health business entrepreneurship interview comedy politics music Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Professor Jerome McGann (University of Virginia) will give a public lecture as part of the CRASSH Mellon CDI Visitng Fellowship programme.
Abstract
As my title suggests, Hans-George Gadamer's dialectic of enlightenment is my point of reference. I mean to recover and revise Gadamer's thought by shifting it from a philosophical to a philological perspective. From the living example of certain individuals, I propose a model of humanist enquiry that seems to me worth preserving and emulating, particularly now when educational policy is reinvesting so heavily in a technical expertise offered by the STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics)