المعرفة والإنسان: حدود المنهج العلمي في العلوم الإنسانية وفي الدراسات الأدبية

Abstract

In the nineteenth century, positivism overrode the various fields of knowledge, including the human knowledge fields or the so-called humanities; this last tried and worked hard on applying the scientific methods over its non-scientific subjects, i.e. those that affect literature, society, self, thoughts and philosophy. Knowing that it has been a separation between the exact science and the intellectual or spiritual fields of knowledge, or what was called that time the inaccurate science, even if the adoption of these fields to the scientific approach had raised various cognitive dilemmas, such as: Is it possible to formulate a scientific law for the society. Is it possible to set strict rules to control the human’s psychological processes, for example talking about a scientific theory of the human feelings? What about literature? Can literature be interpreted according to the same criteria of explaining a natural phenomenon such as climate or organisms evolution in nature?