Emotion and Human Sciences: On the Forms of Knowing

Traditional forms of knowledge in human sciences are primarily understood and pursued in terms of “cognitive” realm by divesting the emotional aspects of realities that human sciences are concerned with. Such orientation can be linked to the ideational shifts brought about by enlightenment project of “western modernity.” However, a meaningful, and transformative, aspect of knowledge can come only when we position emotion as a central concern of human scientific enquiries.