Debating Disciplinarity

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ID2221153
AutoresRobert C Post (0000-0002-2581-919X, autor correspondente), Robert Post, Post (autor correspondente), Post Post (autor correspondente)
Ano2009
Volume35
Fascículo4
Páginas749-770
Data de publicação2009-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCritical Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0093-1896 • E-ISSN: 1539-7858
EditoraUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/599580
OpenAlexW4213349699
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas19
Referências citadas16

I am a lawyer, and lawyers have their priors. One is that no question is innocent. Every question springs from an agenda that determines the range of acceptable answers. So if I amasked, as I have been for these remarks, “what is a discipline?” I want to know who is asking and for what purpose.\nSometimes questions of disciplinarity seek criteria for validating the “eccentric” angle of vision of a particular “intellectual” community in terms of its “methodology,” or “subject-matter,” or “curriculum,” or shared “purpose.” Sometimes questions of disciplinarity express apprehension about the “subordinate status” of a colonized discipline, or about the meaning of interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, or “dedisciplinarity.” And sometimes questions of disciplinarity are meant to initiate the quest for an “indiscipline” that will adequately express an “antiprofessionalism” hostile to “the institutional structures by means of which the various academic disciplines establish and extend their territorial claims.”

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