摘要：How interdependent are the sciences and humanities? In this article I trace, in broadterms, a scientifically-grounded narrative that culminates in a world we describe usingthe humanities, and my field, literary studies, in particular. The longstandingpresumption that science sits opposed to the humanities is fostered on both sides, toneither’s benefit. I hope that by describing something of the bilateral relationshipbetween these fields, arguing that they may be points on a web rather than discretedisciplines, we might better appreciate their places in a cultural ecosystem ofinterdependence. My hope is that scholars in both the sciences and the humanitiesappreciate better what one offers the other.
