Arne Jarrick

Big Research Questions about the Human Condition

A Historian's Will

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ask bigger, fewer, and clearer questions! This is the major message of this book, comprising a set of issues to focus on, hereby suggesting a way to overcome the fragmentation characterising the humanities today. It also urges humanists to regard humanities research as an integral part of science, although uniquely dealing with humans as decision making, meaning seeking and self-reflecting agents.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 245g
• ISBN-13: 9781839985300
• ISBN-10: 1839985305
• Artikelnr.: 63560948

Autorenporträt

Married, four children, six grandchildren; professor emeritus of history at the Centre for the Study of Cultural Evolution, Stockholm University; former secretary general for the humanities and social sciences, Swedish Research Council; former Vice-president of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences; et cetera

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; I: Questions and Answers -
Background, Motivations and Aims; Ii: Suggested Questions; 1: What Explains
That Some Kinds of Knowledge Are Widely Accepted Whereas Other Kinds of
Knowledge Are Rejected?; 2: Why Do Some Societal Processes and Phenomena
Develop in a Circular or Repetitive Way Whereas Other Processes Evolve
Along a Cumulative Trajectory?; 3: Why Do Social Norms Change, Despite the
Fact that their Mission is to be Sustained? What Role Do Non-Conformist
Individuals and Minority Groups Play in Cultural, Cognitive and Normative
Change?; 4: Does a Gradual Extension of Our Lifespan (and the Rise of
Welfare) Imply a Growing or Declining Ability to Postpone the Satisfaction
of Our Needs and Desires?; 5: What Explains the Widespread Diffusion of
Inequality and the Gradual Emergence of Egalitarianism Over the Centuries?;
6. Why Do People Appropriate Aesthetic Experience (Both as Producers and
Consumers of Cultural Manifestations), and What Are the Individual and
Societal Functions of Such Experiences?; What Lies Ahead?; Appendices;
Notes; References; Index.