Progress in the humanities? comparing the objects of culture and science /
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Columbia University Press,
c2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Humanists and their subject matters
- The task of the humanities: looking into the deep
- A new answer
- Magnifying truths: two slide shows
- Searching for the hero: the one who knows
- Large-scale research in the humanities
- 20mule team
- Choir
- Sports team
- Lifeboat
- Distributed computing
- Big science
- Skunk works: discovery at the edges
- Self-understanding as the object of humanistic research
- Deep language: the anxiety of translation
- Magnification and cultural objects
- Fantasies of depth: magnifying cultural objects
- Horizontal analyses in art criticism
- Psychotherapy: part science, part humanities, mostly art
- John Updike, rabbit reruns
- Science, art, metapsychology, and magnification
- Back to Freud, back to the Greeks!
- What counts as progress in the humanities?
- Back to Freud, back to the Greeks!
- Progress in Greek philosophy, literature, and mathematics
- Development and progress in Greek sculpture
- Greek literature, more serious than history
- Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus
- Progress in Greek mathematics: incommensurability
- Seven of nine and five of nine
- Science fiction and psychiatry
- Mapping the boundaries of human being
- Diagnosing the borderline personality: five of nine symptoms
- On the pleasures of science fiction: jumping into the abyss
- Progress as development of the self: from Greek cult to Greek theater
- Canals on mars: exploring imaginary worlds
- Virtual civilizations: Percival Lowell and the Martian Canals
- Pathological science: the limits of vision
- ESP at Duke: the story of J. Rhine
- Cargo cults and the ethics of science
- Thomas MacAulay and English destiny: history as grand narrative
- Searching for essences: Freud and Wittgenstein
- Seeing into the psyche: Freud's diagrams
- Wittgenstein and sharp focusing
- Magnifying truths in philosophical investigations
- The magnification fantasy and ideological leanings
- Cultural artifacts and reductionism
- Learning about the self: new horizons
- Seeing with the brain
- Learning from the market: reason as an interpersonal process
- High art and the power to guess the unseen from the seen
- Does high art convey knowledge?
- Tragedy and mourning as progress
- The power to guess the unseen from the seen
- Reality testing as an intrapsychic process
- Looking outward, three movies
- Blow up
- High anxiety
- The conversation
- Isolating valid signals, making the right cut
- Magnification in humanistic theory.