In his famous classification of the sciences, Francis Bacon not only catalogued those branches of knowledge that already existed in his time, but also anticipated the new disciplines he believed would emerge in the future: the "desirable sciences." Mikhail Epstein echoes, in part, Bacon's vision and outlines the "desirable" disciplines and methodologies that may emerge in the humanities in response to the new realities of the twenty-first century. Are the humanities a purely scholarly field, or should they have some active, constructive supplement? We know that technology serves as the...
In his famous classification of the sciences, Francis Bacon not only catalogued those branches of knowledge that already existed in his time, but a...
Mikhail Epstein Alexander Genis Slobodanka M. Vladiv-Glover
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