Imprisoned in English
Imprisoned in English Imprisoned in English argues that in the present English-dominated world, social sciences and the humanities are locked in a conceptual framework grounded in English and that…
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Imprisoned in English
Imprisoned in English argues that in the present English-dominated world, social sciences and the humanities are locked in a conceptual framework grounded in English and that most scholars in these fields are not aware of the need to break away from this framework to reach a more universal, culture-independent perspective on things human. The book engages with current debates across a range of disciplines, including philosophy, anthropology, sociology, evolutionary science, psychology, and cognitive science, as well as linguistics. Indeed they are typically not aware that any problem exists, and resistant to its being pointed out.
human diversity, the evolution of consciousness, etc. The topics include values, emotions, social cognition, intercultural communication, endangered languages, human universals vs. It is a book dedicated to one central idea: the blind spot in contemporary social sciences and the prevailing global discourse on values, the human condition, human relations, and so on, which results from the