TY - BOOK ID - 7908254 TI - Re-calling the humanities : language, education, and humans being PY - 2013 SN - 9462093121 130620271X 9462093148 946209313X PB - Rotterdam : Sense Publishers, DB - UniCat KW - Humanities -- Philosophy. KW - Humanities -- Study and teaching. KW - Humanities. KW - Learning and scholarship. KW - Education KW - General KW - Social Sciences KW - Education - General KW - History of Scholarship & Learning KW - Humanities KW - Study and teaching. KW - Erudition KW - Scholarship KW - Education. KW - Education, general. KW - Children KW - Education, Primitive KW - Education of children KW - Human resource development KW - Instruction KW - Pedagogy KW - Schooling KW - Students KW - Youth KW - Civilization KW - Learning and scholarship KW - Mental discipline KW - Schools KW - Teaching KW - Training KW - Intellectual life KW - Learned institutions and societies KW - Research KW - Scholars UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7908254 AB - The author has two goals: 1) to reintroduce humanity to the humanities, and 2) to present a foundation constructed in the reality of the natural languages upon which the studies of human thought and behavior can be successfully understood and explained. In the first section of the book the effects of language upon human behavior are illustrated. It is argued that as water is to fish, language is to humans: the medium in which they live, think, and discover reality. The idea that humans are not simply biological animals, but thought evolving in language—humans are the conversations they construct in language—is amplified. The second section of the book discusses what this means for the subjects we call the humanities. Grounded within the hermeneutic theories of Hans Georg Gadamer, the book is addressed to all the students, the teachers, and the teachers of the teachers of literature, poetry, history, and philosophy; in short, to the humanities and those who desire to comprehend and explain what we humans—beyond pure biology—understand and have made of ourselves. ER -