{"id":221,"date":"2021-11-02T10:09:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T14:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/hum583-f21\/?p=221"},"modified":"2021-11-02T10:09:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T14:09:32","slug":"addendum-on-interdisciplinary-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/hum583-f21\/2021\/11\/02\/addendum-on-interdisciplinary-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Addendum on interdisciplinary communication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me just add to the discussion here a structural question that came up in class last week as we thought about the role of critical theory as a lingua franca among the humanistic disciplines. We noted that a discipline may have a canon of objects and a canon of methods. Literature has long had both, the canon of texts for interpretation, and the canon of theory. History has a canon of methods, but not of objects; likewise anthropology. Are methods what the humanistic disciplines most share?<\/p>\n<p>A few possibilities for interdisciplinary communication:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As a series of a ad hoc arrangements, individual embassies among the disciplines that do not necessarily offer shared terms for other connections (or even other occasions).<\/li>\n<li>As a shared commitment to ordinary language (to essayism?)\u2014disciplines may write articles to themselves, essays to other disciplines and to the world at large.<\/li>\n<li>The existing canon of critical theory as a common language for interpreting the work and the value of different disciplines. (Primarily a European canon\u2014but potentially expandable.)<\/li>\n<li>An alternative common language, of theory or method or technique or value etc. What could that be?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me just add to the discussion here a structural question that came up in class last week as we thought about the role of critical theory as a lingua franca among the humanistic disciplines. We noted that a discipline may have a canon of objects and a canon of methods. Literature has long had &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/hum583-f21\/2021\/11\/02\/addendum-on-interdisciplinary-communication\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Addendum on interdisciplinary communication&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":379,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/hum583-f21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/hum583-f21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/hum583-f21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/hum583-f21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/379"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/hum583-f21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/hum583-f21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/hum583-f21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/hum583-f21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/hum583-f21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/hum583-f21\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}