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

在二十世纪后期，由于接受了法国和德国的哲学和批评理论，以这样或那样的方式跨越了现有学科的边界，英语世界的人文科学发生了变化。然而，这种接待是在一系列特定的学科背景下(特别是英国文学研究)进行的，脱离了对这些作品“跨学科”的性质和创新潜力的考虑。这个项目是对某些概念--例如，艺术、性别和新概念--在人文研究背景下如何跨越学科边界的理论调查最近在科学和技术研究和教育研究中都出现了关于“跨学科”的显性话语。然而，这些主要集中在解决问题的技术方法(在日常和政策背景下)和知识的社会组织上。在这两种情况下，这一想法都没有与自20世纪60年代以来人文科学的发展联系在一起，也没有与关于作为知识和实践主体的人文科学的统一(或“人”本身的统一)的基本理论性质的问题联系在一起。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，由于其分析性形成的原因，英语语言哲学对一般概念在人文学科中的地位、特征和运作方式的问题几乎没有表现出兴趣。然而，这是哲学浪漫主义的一个特征。因此，对人文科学跨学科的研究必须解决现有文献中关于其他领域的跨学科性的问题，以及跨学科概念与哲学概念的关系的问题--通过一种新的方法来处理哲学浪漫主义的遗产。目的和目标本项目旨在解决以下基本问题：什么是人文科学中的跨学科？一个概念的创造性在多大程度上和以什么方式与其跨学科的构建、应用或潜力联系在一起？它的目标之一是：1)对德国和法国的每一种批评传统--对最近的英语工作产生了重大影响的书籍--的一个重大的、具有哲学意义的跨学科文本的跨学科结构和动态进行案例研究，并进行批判性和比较分析。我们建议将马克斯·霍克海默和西奥多·W·阿多诺的《启蒙辩证法》(1944；1947)与吉勒斯·德勒兹和费利克斯·瓜塔里的两卷本著作《反俄狄浦斯》(1972)和《一千个高原》(1980)进行比较。2)制作两个跨学科“问题学”(或问题领域)的案例研究：反人文主义和性别研究。3)通过对早期德国浪漫主义(1785-1800)跨学科动态的回顾调查，探索一种独特的“浪漫主义”跨学科，包括对“艺术”和“新”这两个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各种案例研究意味着，它应该会引起非常广泛的学者和其他关注目前被认为是人文科学中的“跨学科”研究的艺术界人士的兴趣。它的目的是将这一领域的方向从更保守的跨学科概念转向开放的、更具试验性的跨学科建设领域。因此，它也应该有益于那些使用现有的“跨学科性”论述的科学技术研究和教育研究人员，通过它对它的批评和它的扩展，使其超越目前的限制。

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.