Editorial
| Autor | Selvino J. Assmann - Silmara Cimbalista |
| Cargo | Editors |
| Páginas | i-iv |
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EDITORIAL
In this issue, the INTERThesis journal presents the dossier: New
Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Trends in Humanities, organized by
professors Héctor José Ricardo Leis and Selvino Assmann. The dossier, composed
of five articles that discuss interdisciplinarity in a different and stimulating way, has
come at the right time, i.e., when the Brazilian Federal Government launches the new
ten-year graduate plan (2011-2020), which includes among its basic points precisely
the stimulus and the strengthening of interdisciplinary research. This release of the
10-year plan coincides with the launching of a book, edited by Arlindo Philippi and
Antonio J. Silva, with about a thousand pages, which theoretically discusses
interdisciplinarity and introduces us to a panorama of the history of interdisciplinary
graduate program in Brazil
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In fact, in the last few decades, the history of interdisciplinary studies is
confused with the most innovative dynamic of knowledge production. The same
cannot be said of the history of disciplines which have gradually been frozen into
paradigmatic molds, losing part of their time in trench warfare against approaches of
their objects come from outside their borders. Insofar as interdisciplinarity implies,
somehow, a reaction against standardized disciplinary approach (whether in
education or in research) of the various objects of study, there are always, as a
result, several interdisciplinary possible reactions to the same challenge of
knowledge. In this dossier, which counts on important intellectual contribution in the
Brazilian academic debate, we support some interdisciplinary reactions in the field of
Humanities, without any intention, therefore, of stopping the debate.
Opening this dossier on interdisciplinarity, Ivan Domingues, whose article has
the title " On the frontiers of knowledge: the enlargement of experience and the
new forms of rationality", presents an exciting panorama of knowledge today,
focusing on inflation of knowledge, the fragmentation of disciplines and the loss of
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PHILIPPI, Arlindo Jr. & SILVA NETO, Antonio J. (Edits). Interdisciplinaridade em ciência,
tecnologia & inovação. Barueri, SP: Manole, 2011, 998 p.
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