Involved Knowing: On the Poetic Epistemology of the Humanities
William Franke
The humanities represent a type of knowledge distinct from, and yet encompassing, scientific knowledge. Drawing on philosophical hermeneutics in the tradition Geisteswissenschaften, as well Latin rhetorical Greek paideia, this essay presents “involved knowing.” Science, principle, abstracts from subjective, psychological conditions knowing, including its emotional willful determinants, introducing personal biases, it attempts also to neutralize historical cultural contingencies. Humanities knowledge, contrast, focuses attention precisely these subjective factors intrinsic any full human purport. In particular, poetry, which historically is matrix all fields, science, deliberately explores amply expresses specifically registers significance. poetic underpinnings actually remain crucial knowing key interpreting significance domains, whole range throughout course development not least modern age so dominated by science technology.
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