The Greater Humanities: une conférence de James Clifford sur l'avenir des humanités

Le group blog Savage Minds (anthropologues, ethnologues) rend compte d'une table ronde tenue à Berkeley en mai 2010 (texte et vidéo accessibles en ligne). James Clifford y propose un point de vue ambitieux pour une refondation des humanités, dans un contexte de crise universitaire qui rend urgente la lutte contre l'instrumentalisation du savoir par le marché.

Extrait de l'intervention:

Here's another sketch map of the Greater Humanities — by disciplines this time, most of them internally divided.

• Literature (a vast archipelago)
• History also very widely extended now (including Art History and Visual Culture, and why not? Archaeology…)
• Philosophy (still divided along “two cultures” lines– hard/soft, analytic/continental. But there are signs of movement along this front…? )
• Linguistics (also a divided field: do we need to chose between the traditions of Sapir and Chomsky?)
• All the “studies” inter-disciplines: American Studies, Women's/Feminist Studies, Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, Science and Technology  Studies… etc.
• Socio-Cultural Anthropology (my own second home) and Historical Archaeology, Human Geography, Qualitative Sociology, some of Environmental Studies…
• Film, Digital Media, Communications.
• Important sectors of Politics, Economics, and Psychology.
• And what we might call the theoretical “Arts”—including Theatre Arts and performance Studies.
•  Accès au texte complet et à la vidéo:
• http://savageminds.org/2011/01/20/the-greater-humanities