What is an Occurrence? On the Humanities and Sciences
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https://doi.org/10.15691/0718-5448Vol3Iss2a328Keywords:
Lichtenberg, economía del conocimiento, pa-perAbstract
First, I discuss the asymmetric relationship between the humanities and sciences in contemporary institutions of knowledge by suggesting the trouble of emphasizing the difference between them, given that both epistemic orders today are subordinate to the same structural conditionings. I shall analyse the effects that these conditionings have on the humanities by focusing on two critical issues. Second, I discuss the epistemic signification of occurrence as a principle shared by the sciences and humanities, by resorting to the exemplary case of the work of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. In this work, experimentalism and essay, singularities, fiction and variation account for the same epistemic outbreak in the humanities (and literature) and sciences.
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