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Foundation Funding for the Humanities: An Overview of Current and Historical Trends
Foundation Funding for the Humanities: An Overview of Current and Historical Trends, finds that funding for fields such as art history, history and archeology, languages and linguistics, area studies, and the humanistic social sciences increased two and one-half times (149.8 percent) from 335 million in 2002. At the same time the report notes that, despite the overall increase, some scholarly disciplines actually lost ground over the ten year period. Support for the humanities grew more slowly than overall foundation giving during this period (up 199.8 percent), and the share of giving for the humanities slipped from 2.5 percent in the early 1990s to 2.1 percent in 2002
Ill Fare the Humanities
The starting point of our considerations is the two books published in 2010: âIll Fares the Landâ by the late Tony Judt and âNot for Profitâ by Martha Nussbaum. The authors of both books share the conviction that neoliberal changes in the world of global capitalism radically impoverish culture and their consequences may be dramatic and irreversible.
In our paper we would like to emphasize the dangers to solidarity and social cohesion posed by neoliberal postulates. We also claim that promoting the neoliberal ideology in the context of higher education and institutions of civic society endangers the very democracy understood as reasonable pluralism (in John Rawlsâ terminology), consisting in rationality, plurality of opinions, lifestyles and conceptions of good, as well as consensus as the aim of social and political practices
The structure of the Arts & Humanities Citation Index: A mapping on the basis of aggregated citations among 1,157 journals
Using the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) 2008, we apply mapping
techniques previously developed for mapping journal structures in the Science
and Social Science Citation Indices. Citation relations among the 110,718
records were aggregated at the level of 1,157 journals specific to the A&HCI,
and the journal structures are questioned on whether a cognitive structure can
be reconstructed and visualized. Both cosine-normalization (bottom up) and
factor analysis (top down) suggest a division into approximately twelve
subsets. The relations among these subsets are explored using various
visualization techniques. However, we were not able to retrieve this structure
using the ISI Subject Categories, including the 25 categories which are
specific to the A&HCI. We discuss options for validation such as against the
categories of the Humanities Indicators of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, the panel structure of the European Reference Index for the
Humanities (ERIH), and compare our results with the curriculum organization of
the Humanities Section of the College of Letters and Sciences of UCLA as an
example of institutional organization
Islamic marketing : insights from a critical perspective
This paper seeks to encourage a critical dialogue within the realm of Journal of Islamic Marketing. It invites marketing scholars and practitioners working on various topics related to Islam and Muslim societies to adopt fresh theoretical and methodological positions that would enhance our understanding of multiple marketing and market dynamics in Muslim societies. The author suggests that the advancement of knowledge in the area of Islamic marketing requires reflexivity and self-critique. The paper highlights the constructive value of critical approach to the development of marketing theory and practice. This paper reflects the authorâs personal viewpoint on the production of knowledge and improving practice in the realm of Islamic marketing
Economics as a Discipline of Instrumental Reason. Looking at Economics as a Science from the Perspective of the Frankfurt School of Philosophy
The article is built around the analysis of The critique of instrumental reason by
Horkheimer, applied to issues connected with the philosophy of economics. Positive
economics is under-stood as an example of a discipline where the pragmatic paradigm has been implemented. Therefore, economics functions within the boundaries
of what Horkheimer called instrumental rationality. The starting point is the intellectual source shared by economics and the Frankfurt School, namely Kantâs philosophy of rationality. In the first part of the article, three of Kantâs ideas that are
fundamental to economics are presented, and then the development of their application in philosophy of science, as seen by Horkheimer in 1947, is laid out. The
second part of the article consists of enumerating various distinctive features of economics that set it apart from other social sciences and which constitute factors for
which it can be considered a realm of the reign of âinstrumental rationalityâ, with
all the threats such an approach provokes. The above-mentioned features concentrate on treating humans in economics as a means, not as a goal. This aspect of the
philosophy of science of the Frankfurt School (unlike its critique of capitalism as
an economic system) has not been widely received
An Attempt to Update Edward Dembowskiâs Philosophy of Creation
The article mainly discusses Edward Dembowski's philosophy of creation in connection with his Hegelian influences, leftist associations and the ongoing discussion in nineteenth century romantic polish philosophy. The nineteenth century, with its German Idealism and French tendency to act in the name of social rights, had introduced new ideas to work with during harsh historical times. Dembowski, amongst other Poles, was the closest to constructing a coherent metaphysical system for the philosophy of creation (filozofia twĂłrczoĆci). In the paper, I try to show a part of his intellectual evolution, stretching from defining philosophy as knowledge itself in the form of a Hegelian system, through his critique of Hegel's and Cieszkowski's systems, up to his own established system â the philosophy of creation and its social connections. I also speculate about which of his philosophical ideas can remain relevant today
Before Virtue: Halakhah, Dharmasastra, and What Law Can Create
Davis, referring to the traditional Jewish and Hindu legal texts, addresses on what law creates or produces. He focuses on both Jewish and Hindu jurisprudence claim that law can create--a human, not a biological homo sapiens, but rather the full ideal of what humans were meant to be. He argues that it is the essential indistinguishability of law and religion in both traditional Judaism and Hinduism that permits the ideal human to be created through religious law
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