INTERDISCIPLINARITY IN THE HUMANITARIAN KNOWLEDGE

Abstract

The article describes the formation of a complex multilevel system of humanitarian knowledge in the contemporary literature. For analysis of this process, there is used the conceptual apparatus associated with the phenomenon of interdisciplinarity. There are different forms of interdisciplinarity in the field of humanitarian know­ledge: multidisciplinarity, interdisciplinarity as such, and transdisciplinarity. A brief description of them is given. The authors examine some manifestations of interdisciplinarity: interdisciplinary research, associated disciplines focused on the pedagogical process. There are different kinds of transdisciplinarity in the humanitarian know­ledge. Transdisciplinarity can serve as an attempt to create a unified humanitarian science, a unified anthropology, huma­nistics, a new direction in the philosophy of science, meta-analysis of the humanitarian research, etc. The article criticizes the idea of humanitaristics as a common methodology for the humanitarian knowledge, particularly for its tendency to mix scientific and non-scienti­fic components. The authors believe that social sciences and huma­nitarian ones differ in the object, the subject and the relation to values. The paradigmatic distinction of social and humanitarian sciences is critically assessed. The article emphasizes that the humanitarian know­ledge has a technological dimension, which is ma­nifested in the development of the subject of humanitarian technologies and humanitarian expertise in literature. Some of their features are considered. The scientific no­velty of the article lies in description of the phenomenon of expansion of the humanitarian knowledge, which includes not only the Humanities, but also a variety of interdisciplinary research, transdisciplinary formations, applied and technological humanitarian studies, various unscientific views. The emergence of such a phenomenon makes important the problem of distinction between social and humanitarian sciences, as well as the distinction between scientific and non-scientific components in the humanitarian knowledge.