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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Eugene Goodheart |
| ISBN: | 9781412806619 1412806615 |
| OCLC Number: | 138340077 |
| Description: | vii, 127 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | Reducing literature and the arts -- Demystifying religion -- Reinventing ethics -- Is history a science? -- Condescending to science -- In defense of dualism. |
| Responsibility: | Eugene Goodheart. |
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-Probing the implications of contemporary theory, Goodheart (emer., humanities, Brandeis Univ.) offers a cautionary overview of the criticism that has emerged in the aftermath of postmodernism. The author's primary targets are neo-Darwinists, who assert the ability of science to explain everything--including the humanities. Goodheart sees such critics as ideologues employing an overreaching scientism, reducing complex effects to biological processes... Summing Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.- --J. J. Wydeven, Choice -Goodheart is a Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Brandeis University, and he has seen enough nonsense from every side to want to take a stand. If only because of this, the book is certainly worth reading for both scientists and humanists (and it is brief and written clearly enough that it doesn't require much background knowledge in either field).- --Skeptic Magazine -Eugene Goodheart is the most effective and indefatigable advocate for what might be called, the radical middle. Steering a tricky but assured course between scientism and skepticism. Goodheart proceeds, as always with a humane respect for ordinary experience and common sense...- --Geoffrey Harpham, director, National Humanities Center "Probing the implications of contemporary theory, Goodheart (emer., humanities, Brandeis Univ.) offers a cautionary overview of the criticism that has emerged in the aftermath of postmodernism. The author's primary targets are neo-Darwinists, who assert the ability of science to explain everything--including the humanities. Goodheart sees such critics as ideologues employing an overreaching scientism, reducing complex effects to biological processes... Summing Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." --J. J. Wydeven, Choice "Goodheart is a Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Brandeis University, and he has seen enough nonsense from every side to want to take a stand. If only because of this, the book is certainly worth reading for both scientists and humanists (and it is brief and written clearly enough that it doesn't require much background knowledge in either field)." --Skeptic Magazine "Eugene Goodheart is the most effective and indefatigable advocate for what might be called, the radical middle. Steering a tricky but assured course between scientism and skepticism. Goodheart proceeds, as always with a humane respect for ordinary experience and common sense..." --Geoffrey Harpham, director, National Humanities Center "Probing the implications of contemporary theory, Goodheart (emer., humanities, Brandeis Univ.) offers a cautionary overview of the criticism that has emerged in the aftermath of postmodernism. The author's primary targets are neo-Darwinists, who assert the ability of science to explain everything--including the humanities. Goodheart sees such critics as ideologues employing an overreaching scientism, reducing complex effects to biological processes... Summing Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." --J. J. Wydeven, Choice "Goodheart is a Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Brandeis University, and he has seen enough nonsense from every side to want to take a stand. If only because of this, the book is certainly worth reading for both scientists and humanists (and it is brief and written clearly enough that it doesn't require much background knowledge in either field)." --Skeptic Magazine "Eugene Goodheart is the most effective and indefatigable advocate for what might be called, the radical middle. Steering a tricky but assured course between scientism and skepticism. Goodheart proceeds, as always with a humane respect for ordinary experience and common sense..." --Geoffrey Harpham, director, National Humanities Center "Probing the implications of contemporary theory, Goodheart (emer., humanities, Brandeis Univ.) offers a cautionary overview of the criticism that has emerged in the aftermath of postmodernism. The author's primary targets are neo-Darwinists, who assert the ability of science to explain everything--including the humanities. Goodheart sees such critics as ideologues employing an overreaching scientism, reducing complex effects to biological processes... Summing Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty." --J. J. Wydeven, Choice "Goodheart is a Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Brandeis University, and he has seen enough nonsense from every side to want to take a stand. If only because of this, the book is certainly worth reading for both scientists and humanists (and it is brief and written clearly enough that it doesn't require much background knowledge in either field)." "--""Skeptic" Magazine "Eugene Goodheart is the most effective and indefatigable advocate for what might be called, the radical middle. Steering a tricky but assured course between scientism and skepticism. Goodheart proceeds, as always with a humane respect for ordinary experience and common sense..." --Geoffrey Harpham, director, National Humanities Center "Goodheart is a Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Brandeis University, and he has seen enough nonsense from every side to want to take a stand. If only because of this, the book is certainly worth reading for both scientists and humanists (and it is brief and written clearly enough that it doesn't require much background knowledge in either field).""--Skeptic" Magazine "Eugene Goodheart is the most effective and indefatigable advocate for what might be called, the radical middle. Steering a tricky but assured course between scientism and skepticism. Goodheart proceeds, as always with a humane respect for ordinary experience and common sense..."--Geoffrey Harpham, director, National Humanities Center "Probing the implications of contemporary theory, Goodheart offers a cautionary overview of the criticism that has emerged in the aftermath of postmodernism. The author's primary targets are neo-Darwinists, who assert the ability of science to explain everything--including the humanities. Essential."--J.J. Wydeven, emeritus, "Choice" "Goodheart is a Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at Brandeis University, and he has seen enough nonsense from every side to want to take a stand. If only because of this, the book is certainly worth reading for both scientists and humanists (and it is brief and written clearly enough that it doesn't require much background knowledge in either field).""--Skeptic" Magazine"Eugene Goodheart is the most effective and indefatigable advocate for what might be called, the radical middle. Steering a tricky but assured course between scientism and skepticism. Goodheart proceeds, as always with a humane respect for ordinary experience and common sense..."--Geoffrey Harpham, director, National Humanities Center"Probing the implications of contemporary theory, Goodheart offers a cautionary overview of the criticism that has emerged in the aftermath of postmodernism. The author's primary targets are neo-Darwinists, who assert the ability of science to explain everything--including the humanities. Essential."--J.J. Wydeven, emeritus, "Choice" Read more...
