Transdisciplinarity and the Humanities: Problems, Methods, Histories, Concepts

在世纪后期，英语世界的人文学科因接受了法国和德国的哲学和批判理论而发生了变化，这些哲学和批判理论以某种方式跨越了现有学科的界限。然而，这种接待发生在一系列特定的学科背景下（特别是英语文学研究），孤立的考虑的性质和创新潜力的“跨学科”的这些作品。这个项目是一个理论调查的方式，某些概念-例如，艺术，性别和新的-功能跨学科边界的人文研究contextExplicitdiscourses关于“transdisciplinarity”最近已经开发在科学和技术研究和教育研究。然而，这些主要侧重于解决问题的技术方法（在日常和政策背景下）和知识的社会组织。在这两种情况下，这一思想都没有与20世纪60年代以来人文学科的发展联系起来，也没有与关于人文学科作为知识和实践的整体的统一性（或“人”本身的统一性）的基本理论性质的问题联系起来。传统上，哲学认为自己提供了跨越其他学科的普遍性形式。然而，由于其分析性的形成原因，英语哲学对人文学科中跨学科的一般概念的地位、特征和功能模式问题表现出很少的兴趣。这是浪漫主义哲学的一个特点。因此，在人文学科的跨学科研究必须解决现有的文献在其他领域的跨学科和跨学科概念的关系，哲学概念的问题，历史和分析-通过一种新的方法来哲学浪漫主义的遗产。一个概念的创造性在多大程度上和以何种方式与其跨学科的构建、应用或潜力相联系？其目标包括：1）对一个主要的跨学科文本的跨学科结构和动态进行案例研究、批判性和比较性分析，这些文本来自德国和法国的批评传统，对最近的英语作品产生了重大影响。我们建议比较霍克海默和西奥多W。阿多诺的《启蒙辩证法》（Dialectic of Enlightenment，1944; 1947）以及德勒兹和瓜塔里的两卷本著作《反俄狄浦斯》（Anti-Oedipus，1972）和《一千高原》（A Thousand Plateaus，1980）。2)两个跨学科的“问题”（或问题领域）的案例研究的生产：反人道主义和性别研究。3)通过对早期德国浪漫主义的跨学科动态的回顾性调查，探索独特的“浪漫主义”跨学科性（1785-1800），包括对“艺术”和“新”的一般类别的功能的分析。潜在的应用和好处这个项目的理论广度和它的多样化的案例研究意味着它应该是一个非常广泛的选区感兴趣学术界和艺术界的其他人关注的是目前被认为是人文学科中的“跨学科”研究。它的目的是重新定位这个领域，从更保守的跨学科概念转向开放的，更实验性的跨学科建设领域。因此，它也应该有利于那些在科学和技术研究和教育研究谁使用现有的话语“跨学科”，它的批评和扩展超出其目前的限制。

In the late twentieth century, the humanities in the English-speaking world were transformed by the reception of types of French and German philosophy and critical theory that, in one way or another, work across the boundaries of existing disciplines. However, this reception took place in a range of specific disciplinary contexts (especially English literary studies), isolated from the consideration of the nature and innovative potential of the 'transdisciplinarity' of these works. This project is a theoretical investigation into the way certain concepts - for example, art, gender and the new - function across disciplinary borders in the humanitiesResearch contextExplicit discourses about 'transdisciplinarity' have recently been developed in both Science and Technology Studies and Education Studies. However, these are primarily focused on technological approaches to problem solving (in everyday and policy contexts) and the social organization of knowledges. In neither instance has the idea been connected up to developments in the humanities since the 1960s, or to issues of a fundamental theoretical character about the unity of the humanities as body of knowledge and practice (or the unity of 'the human' itself). Traditionally, philosophy has conceived of itself as providing the forms of universality that span other disciplines. However, for reasons of its analytical formation, English-language philosophy has shown little interest in the question of the status, character and modes of functioning of general concepts across disciplines in the humanities. This is, however, a characteristic of philosophical Romanticism. The study of transdisciplinarity in the humanities must thus address both the existing literature on transdisciplinarity in other areas and the question of the relationship of transdisciplinary concepts to philosophical concepts, historically and analytically - through a new approach to the legacy of philosophical Romanticism.Aims and objectivesThis project aims to address the basic questions: What is transdisciplinarity in the humanities? And to what extent and in what ways is the creativity of a concept linked to its transdisciplinary construction, application or potential? It has among its objectives: 1) the production of case studies, and critical and comparative analyses, of the transdisciplinary structures and dynamics of one major, philosophically informed transdisciplinary text from each of the German and French critical traditions - books which have had a significant impact on recent English-language work. We propose to compare Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944; 1947) and Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's two-volume work comprising Anti-Oedipus (1972) and A Thousand Plateaus (1980). 2) the production of case studies of two transdisciplinary 'problematics' (or fields of problems): anti-humanism and gender study. 3) The exploration of a distinctively 'Romantic' transdisciplinarity, through a retrospective investigation of the transdisciplinary dynamics of early German Romanticism (1785-1800), including analyses of the function of the general categories of 'art' and 'the new'.Potential applications and benefitsThe theoretical breadth of this project and its diverse case studies mean that it should be of interest to a very broad constituency of academics and others in the arts concerned with what is currently thought of as 'interdisciplinary' studies in the humanities. It aims to reorient this field away from the more conservative notion of interdisciplinarity towards the open, more experimental field of transdisciplinary constructions. As such, it should also be of benefit to those in Science and Technology Studies and Education Studies who use the existing discourse of 'transdisciplinarity', by its criticisms of it and its extension beyond its current limits.