eprintid: 10152403 rev_number: 11 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/15/24/03 datestamp: 2023-09-11 16:20:15 lastmod: 2023-09-18 18:04:34 status_changed: 2023-09-11 16:20:15 type: website metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Mussgnug, Florian title: In defence of Radical Inquiry in Comparative Literature, Translation and the Study of Language(s) – 7: Pluralism and Vulnerability ispublished: pub divisions: C01 divisions: J42 divisions: B03 divisions: UCL keywords: Pluralism, Vulnerability, University note: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. abstract: This intervention stresses the positive importance of pluralism in the Arts and Humanities. Instead of championing a single definition of the Arts and Humanities, I emphasise the positive ambivalence of these fields and the interdependence of arguments, attitudes and styles that are in play; the irreducible complexity of political, 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’s and the scholar’s ability to query the human from diverse angles, including the position of its least privileged and most vulnerable designations. This ability, I propose, must continue to serve as a bedrock for reasoned and respectful dialogue, in academic criticism and in wider cultural and political exchanges. date: 2022-07-20 date_type: published publisher: Centre for Comparative Literature, Goldsmiths University London official_url: https://sites.gold.ac.uk/comparative-literature/in-defence-of-radical-inquiry-7-pluralism-and-vulnerability/ oa_status: green full_text_type: other language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1966454 medium: online lyricists_name: Mussgnug, Florian lyricists_id: FMUSS55 actors_name: Mussgnug, Florian actors_id: FMUSS55 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public citation: Mussgnug, Florian; (2022) In defence of Radical Inquiry in Comparative Literature, Translation and the Study of Language(s) – 7: Pluralism and Vulnerability. [Digital scholarly resource]. https://sites.gold.ac.uk/comparative-literature/in... <https://sites.gold.ac.uk/comparative-literature/in-defence-of-radical-inquiry-7-pluralism-and-vulnerability/> Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10152403/1/Florian%20LINKS%20blogpost-2.pdf