?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=In+defence+of+Radical+Inquiry+in+Comparative+Literature%2C+Translation+and+the+Study+of+Language(s)+%E2%80%93+7%3A+Pluralism+and+Vulnerability&rft.creator=Mussgnug%2C+Florian&rft.description=This+intervention+stresses+the+positive+importance+of+pluralism+in+the+Arts+and+Humanities.+Instead+of+championing+a+single+definition+of+the+Arts+and+Humanities%2C+I+emphasise+the+positive+ambivalence+of+these+fields+and+the+interdependence+of+arguments%2C+attitudes+and+styles+that+are+in+play%3B+the+irreducible+complexity+of+political%2C+social+and+cultural+situations+that+will+not+be+settled+by+neat+solutions+that+focus+on+one+interpretative+category+alone.+I+suggest+that+the+social+importance+of+the+Arts+and+Humanities+cannot+be+stated+in+purely+economic+or+institutional+terms.+It+also+stems+from+the+artist%E2%80%99s+and+the+scholar%E2%80%99s+ability+to+query+the+human+from+diverse+angles%2C+including+the+position+of+its+least+privileged+and+most+vulnerable+designations.+This+ability%2C+I+propose%2C+must+continue+to+serve+as+a+bedrock+for+reasoned+and+respectful+dialogue%2C+in+academic+criticism+and+in+wider+cultural+and+political+exchanges.&rft.subject=Pluralism%2C+Vulnerability%2C+University&rft.publisher=Centre+for+Comparative+Literature%2C+Goldsmiths+University+London&rft.date=2022-07-20&rft.type=Digital+scholarly+resource&rft.language=eng&rft.source=+++https%3A%2F%2Fsites.gold.ac.uk%2Fcomparative-literature%2Fin...+%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fsites.gold.ac.uk%2Fcomparative-literature%2Fin-defence-of-radical-inquiry-7-pluralism-and-vulnerability%2F%3E+++++&rft.format=text&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F10152403%2F1%2FFlorian%2520LINKS%2520blogpost-2.pdf&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F10152403%2F&rft.rights=open