RADIKAL FORTOLKNING: Humanistisk teori ved årtusindskiftet

Abstract

The renaissance view of humans as ffee and

responsible agents is the starting point for

this article that seeks to delineate the task of

the humanities today, at an age which has had

to accept the fail of Objectivism. The time is

marked by a switch from seeing the task of

science in general as one of clarifying what is

already there, in nature, to seeing it as a kind

of radical interpretation that adds its own

layer of understanding, and thereby of

reality, to the object. The conclusion is that

the object of study for the human Sciences

cannot and should not be seen in naturalistic

terms; instead we have to work with fluid

objects and ontologies that seriously

question the disciplinary boundaries

established in the nineteenth century.