Why study the Humanities and the Social Sciences?
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This lecture entitled 'Humanities and the Social Sciences' was given by Dr. Patrick Baert of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge.
The lecture is introduced by Louise Mirrer, President, New-York Historical Society. The lecture was given at Cambridge in America Day 2007, New York City, CUNY Graduate Center on December 1, 2007. |
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| Created: | 2008-11-13 12:45 |
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| Collection: | Cambridge in America |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | University of Cambridge |
| Language: | eng (English) |
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| Explicit content: | No |
| Aspect Ratio: | 4:3 |
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| Abstract: | Why study the Humanities and the Socieal Sciences? The answer draws on insights from American pragmatism and Continental-European hermeneutics.
Patrick Baert is University Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Cambridge. He is also Fellow and Director of Studies in Social and Political Sciences at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He is interested in social theory; philosophy of social science; and sociology of culture. Amongst his publications are Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Towards Pragmatism (2005), Social Theory in the 20th Century (1998), Time, Self and Social Being (1992), the edited volumes Pragmatism and European Social Theory (with BS Turner, 2007) and Time in Contemporary Intellectual Thought (2000). He studied at the Universities of Brussels and Oxford, where he obtained his D.Phil. He has been Vice-President for Publications of the European Sociological Association and Coordinator of the Social Theory Research Network of the ESA. He holds editorial positions at European Societies, the Journal for Classical Sociology, the European Journal of Social Theory, and the International Journal of the Humanities. |
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