Neopragmatism and the Question of Interdisciplinarity: The Case of Stanley Fish

• Authors: Wojciech Małecki
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the paper is to criticize Stanley Fish's views on interdisciplinarity (particularly as far as his account of interdisciplinarity in literary studies is concerned). The first part of the article consists of: (a) a summary of his critique of the so-called religion of interdisciplinarity; (b) a description of Fish's theory of disciplinarity that underlies this critique. In the second part of the article, I provide a criticism of Fish's theory. I begin by presenting some counterexamples to it. Then I attempt to demonstrate that Fish's views are self-refuting. Finally, I argue that besides these theoretical reasons, there is also a practical reason why Fish's position needs to be questioned.

Keywords

EN

Stanley Fish; neopragmatism; literary studies; interdisciplinarity

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human Affairs
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 96-104

Dates

published

2009-06-01

online

2009-03-21

Contributors

author

Wojciech Małecki

• Faculty of Philology, University of Wrocław, Plac Nankiera 15, 50-140 Wrocław, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10023-009-0025-9