Introduction
Genres of Blur
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3850111 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin Jay, Ermanno Bencivenga, Peter Burke (0000-0002-0329-5436), Christopher P Jones (0000-0002-6807-2380), Ardis Butterfield, Mercedes García-Arenal, Mercedes García‐arenal (0000-0001-9592-3585), Avinoam Rosenak, Francis X Clooney (0000-0002-6582-2318) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 220-228 |
| Publication date | 2012-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Common Knowledge (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-754X • E-ISSN: 1538-4578 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/0961754x-1544905 |
| OpenAlex | W2013965200 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 2 |
Ever since Clifford Geertz urged the "blurring of genres" in the social sciences, many scholars have considered the crossing of disciplinary boundaries a healthy alternative to rigidly maintaining them. But what precisely does the metaphor of "blurring" imply? By unpacking the varieties of visual experiences that are normally grouped under this rubric, this essay seeks to provide some precision to our understanding of the implications of fuzziness. It extrapolates from the blurring caused by differential focal distances, velocities of objects in the visual field, and competing perspectival vantage points to comparable effects in the intersection of different scholarly disciplines. Arguing against the holistic implications of Geertz's metaphor, as well as the even more totalizing concept of "consilience" introduced by E. O. Wilson, it suggests that blurring implies new types of complexity between or among those disciplines
Aesthetics · Consilience · Discipline · Epistemology · Linguistics · Metaphor · Rubric · Social science · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Law in Society and Culture · Mathematics · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2023 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |