期刊名称：Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
电子版ISSN：0975-2935
出版年度：2011
卷号：3
期号：1
页码：218-221
出版社：Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
摘要："Se.or beard was to excuse an uneducated man's na.vety and ignorance, but was the strange reality described by quantum mechanics a description of the actual world, or was it simply a system that happened to work." writes Ian McEwan in his latest novel, Solar(McEwan 65). It could equally, however, have been issued by one of the many figures surveyed in the second edition of Joe Moran's Interdisciplinarity, a book that charts the descent to, and subsequent attempts to resurface from, the depths of post-modern scepticism in the Humanities. A reference work about the university itself, with a somewhat Anglo-centric bias, Moran's initial premise is that the term discipline has remained caught in a state of flux between knowledge and power (2)while, following Geoffrey Bennington, its prefix "inter-" also holds a duality of connection and betweenness (14). It is, therefore, with complete self-awareness of the problems involved in a systematization of a space that wishes to transcend systematization that Moran's immanent overview begins with a historical perspective on the disciplines themselves. Before proceeding to engage with some of Moran's arguments, I will present an overview of the work which will demonstrate the elements of formalization that are deployed.
