speaking of things
If you study the humanities, are you not supposed to study that which is inhuman, inhumane, dehumanizing, trans-human, or non-human?
The human sciences, or Geisteswissenschaften (spirit-sciences), do not study humanity to the exclusion of the extra-human, non-human, supra-human, etc. Rather, the human sciences study all things, the myriad beings, specifically with the intention to let all beings gather into themselves, into the cosmic network of social assembly, into the jeweled net of Indra. The differences between particular human sciences lies not in what things they study, but in what tools they use to study things. Biologists and chemists use microscopes to explore and experiment with things, while psychologists and sociologists use experiences of personal, interpersonal, and transpersonal interaction to become more sensitive to things.
Of course, in studying a network that intertwines human and nonhuman, the human sciences are postmodern. But remember the ambiguity of this post-. Are we after modernity the way adolescence is after early childhood and/or the way an adolescent boy is after an adolescent girl?
The human sciences, or Geisteswissenschaften (spirit-sciences), do not study humanity to the exclusion of the extra-human, non-human, supra-human, etc. Rather, the human sciences study all things, the myriad beings, specifically with the intention to let all beings gather into themselves, into the cosmic network of social assembly, into the jeweled net of Indra. The differences between particular human sciences lies not in what things they study, but in what tools they use to study things. Biologists and chemists use microscopes to explore and experiment with things, while psychologists and sociologists use experiences of personal, interpersonal, and transpersonal interaction to become more sensitive to things.
Of course, in studying a network that intertwines human and nonhuman, the human sciences are postmodern. But remember the ambiguity of this post-. Are we after modernity the way adolescence is after early childhood and/or the way an adolescent boy is after an adolescent girl?