{"id":9517,"date":"2021-12-03T16:47:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T16:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/?p=9517"},"modified":"2022-07-27T17:28:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T17:28:45","slug":"humanities-as-and-of-crises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/humanities-as-and-of-crises\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Humanities as\/and\/of Crises&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Vincent Colapietro<br>Thursday, March 10, 12:30 pm<br>Hybrid event<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Beginning with a brief historical survey (picking up the story with the<br>Renaissance), Colapietro&#8217;s purpose is to highlight the ways in which the humanities, from their origin to the present, have been implicated in cultural crises. They are ineluctably the sites of such crises. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9528 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1655\/1146px-Rembrandt_-_Aristotle_with_a_Bust_of_Homer_-_Google_Art_Project-287x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"300\">Optimally, they are resources for clarifying the significance of the crises at the center of any culture. If the humanities are not in intense crises, culture and education are in deepest trouble. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9527 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1655\/Jacques-Louis_David_-_The_Death_of_Socrates_-_Google_Art_Project-300x199.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\">Though this might be offered as a glib or facile reply to the state of affairs, it can also be framed in a responsible and orienting manner. W. B. Gallie\u2019s concept of \u201can essentially contested concept\u201d provides an important resource for framing the humanities as\/and\/of crises in this manner.<\/p>\n<p>Colapietro&#8217;s exploration of the humanities is part of both his historical work (the<br>recovery of American pragmatists such as Peirce, James, and Dewey for crises of American democracy) and one of his systematic concerns&nbsp;(articulating an understanding of history which provides a <em>via media<\/em>, an approach offering an alternative to self-defeating forms of historical \u201crelativism\u201d and the untenable position of absolutism or objectivism). Colapietro&#8217;s presentation is central to his interests and commitments, as these animate his work as a scholar.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Watch a recording of Vincent&#8217;s talk below.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>**Our sincere apologies for audio issues during the first 4 minutes, which were cut from the recording.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"oembed oembed-youtube-com\" style=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0C1YYgnz000&#038;ab_channel=URICenterfortheHumanities\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;Humanities as\/and\/of Crises&quot;\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0C1YYgnz000?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Vincent Colapietro &#8211; Department of Philosophy<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4099,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bb-past"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9517"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10269,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9517\/revisions\/10269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}