Književnost i društveno-humanističke znanosti: sociologija, antropologija i historija između čitanja i pisanja
Literature and social sciences and humanities: Sociology, anthropology and history between reading and writing

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyzes relation between theoretical register of social sciences and humanities with that of literature and literary criticism, using examples from sociology (Nisbet's concept of sociology as an art form), anthropology (Geertz's interpretive anthropology) and history (White and LaCapra's critique of positivist historiography mainstream). Literature and social sciences and humanities, although dealing with material of different nature, share, to a large extent, a process of imagination: that is a category of writing. With literary theory, we are dealing with category of reading – reading that is not confined to text, but is also a reading of context: culture or society. Social sciences and humanities should not abhor these bonds; on the contrary, they should accept and use them, without fear that these connections will annihilate delimitation between the two mentioned registers, literary and scientific.

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