Nature and Culture in Humanistic Studies.
It is increasingly common to find attempts to open up the circularity of humanistic studies by appeals to the outside, scientific methodologies of cognitive studies and biology. Embracing the goals of ‘embodied criticism,’ we are more likely to escape the recycling of ideas that occurs when humanist...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of the Humanities Vol. 3; no. 1; pp. 173 - 180 |
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Common Ground Research Networks
Sep2005
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