What if the goal of the human sciences was not the comprehension but the uncomprehensible? The article explores this perspectives, by replacing the idea of the uncomprehensible within a complex trajectory which leads from Nikolaus von Kues and René Descartes to Georges Bataille, Jacques Lacan and Georges Didi-Huberman.

The Jaspers Case and the Paradox of the "Human" Sciences

Federico Leoni
2019-01-01

Abstract

What if the goal of the human sciences was not the comprehension but the uncomprehensible? The article explores this perspectives, by replacing the idea of the uncomprehensible within a complex trajectory which leads from Nikolaus von Kues and René Descartes to Georges Bataille, Jacques Lacan and Georges Didi-Huberman.
2019
9783030184919
Human sciences, Geist, Geisteswissenschaften, Naturwissenscheaften, Jaspers, Descartes,
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