Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Rosenblatt Chapter 6

In the space of a few pages in chapter six, Rosenblatt has touched on so many themes I've been working through over the past few semesters. Chapter 6 starts with some observations about how much the world has changed, which seem dated. Eventually, she comes to a discussion of science and the artificial divide between literature/the humanites and science. She's on the other side of the wall from Krulwich. He says science is poorer without story. She says the study of literature is poorer without science, and that science has gotten a bum rap about being necessarily dry and unfeeling. She criticizes the adoption of physics as a model for social sciences. She criticizes an over-reliance on behaviorism.

She also talks about art and the role of the artist in communication.

She also talks about the inescapable subjectivity of research and the need for researchers to interrogate their own cultural biases and agendas.

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