Includes bibliographical references (p.[199]-225) and index.
Contents:
Introduction. Humanists and their subject matters ; The task of the humanities : looking into the deep -- A new answer. Magnifying truths : two slide shows ; Searching for the hero : the one who knows ; Large-scale research in the humanities ; 20-mule team ; Choir ; Sports team ; Lifeboat ; Distributed computing ; Big science ; Skunk works : discovery at the edges ; Self-understanding as the object of humanistic research ; Deep language : the anxiety of translation ; Magnification and cultural objects. Fantasies of depth : magnifying cultural objects ; Horizontal analyses in art criticism ; Psychotherapy : part science, part humanities, mostly art ; John Updike, rabbit reruns ; Science, art, metapsychology, and magnification -- Back to Freud, back to the Greeks! What counts as progress in the humanities? ; Back to Freud, back to the Greeks! ; Progress in Greek philosophy, literature, and mathematics ; Development and progress in Greek sculpture? ; Greek literature, "more serious than history" ; Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus ; Progress in Greek mathematics : incommensurability -- Seven of nine and five of nine. Science fiction and psychiatry ; Mapping the boundaries of human being ; Diagnosing the borderline personality : five of nine symptoms ; On the pleasures of science fiction : jumping into The abyss ; Progress as development of the self : from Greek cult to Greek theater -- Canals on Mars : exploring imaginary worlds. Virtual civilizations : Percival Lowell and the Martian Canals ; Pathological science : the limits of vision ; ESP at Duke : the story of J.B. Rhine ; "Cargo cults" and the ethics of science ; Thomas Macaulay and English destiny : history as grand narrative -- Searching for essences : Freud and Wittgenstein. Seeing into the psyche : Freud's diagrams ; Wittgenstein and sharp focusing ; Magnifying truths in Philosophical investigations ; The magnification fantasy and ideological leanings ; Cultural artifacts and reductionism ; Learning about the self : new horizons ; Seeing with the brain ; Learning from the market : reason as an interpersonal process -- High art and the power to guess the unseen from the seen. Does high art convey knowledge? ; Tragedy and mourning as progress ; The power to guess the unseen from the seen ; Reality testing as an intrapsychic process ; Looking outward, three movies ; Blow up ; High anxiety ; The conversation ; Isolating valid signals, making the right cut ; Magnification in humanistic theory.
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