Konwergencja a kondycja nauk humanistycznych
Streszczenie
I used the term “convergence” for describing a social condition of
humanities in the face of hard science’s growing importance. I analyzed
the term, derived from both sociology and media studies, in context of
philosophical issues of globalization. Finally, I defined “convergence” as
a matter of coexistence of the “old” and the “new” — where the latter
determines the first’s way of development. On the basis of this
statement I proposed a “convergent attitude” as a kind of solution for
the weakening condition of humanities. The “convergent attitude”
means the openness to technological and scientific modifications of
everyday life as to the important interpretative context. The main frame
of theoretical reference is Actor-Network Theory by Bruno Latour,
which has been compared with Stanley Fish’s neopragmatism and with
the theory of paradigms by Thomas Kuhn. I give some examples of
“convergent attitude” from works by Stanisław Lem and Peter
Sloterdijk.