本书的撰稿人从不同学科背景的角度反思了与民主和人文有关的民粹主义现象和概念：哲学、思想史、媒体和传播学、新闻学、政治学、性别研究、组织科学、教育理论、大众文化和文学研究。虽然民粹主义的研究似乎已经成为政治学的一个分支领域，但人文学科的学者很少探讨这个话题。我们的作者没有对社会和政治科学中已经确立的民粹主义研究领域做出贡献，而是采取了更开放和探索性的立场，试图从跨学科人文主义的角度为研究开辟新的领域和方向。
在与相关性、影响和可见性的问题作斗争时，人文学科有着特殊的责任来解决这个问题，不仅因为它与它们的多学科范围有关，还因为人文学科代表着深思熟虑、深入思考、批判性思考、重重重和彻底分析的价值观。人文学科的存在本身就构成了对抗通常被称为民粹主义的保障。
Populism, Democracy, and the Humanities: Interdisciplinary Explorations and Critical Enquiries
The contributors to this volume reflect on the phenomenon and concept of populism in relation to democracy and the humanities from the vantage points of various disciplinary backgrounds: philosophy, history of ideas, media and communication, journalism, political science, gender studies, organization science, education theory, popular culture, and literary studies. While the study of populism seems to have become a subfield within political science, this topic has been rarely explored by scholars in the humanities. Rather than contribute to the already established area of populism studies in social and political sciences, our authors take a more open and exploratory stance through which they attempt to open up new fields and directions for inquiry from an interdisciplinary humanistic perspective.
Struggling with problems of relevance, impact, and visibility, the humanities have a special responsibility to address this topic, not only because it is relevant for their multidisciplinary scope, but also because the humanities stand for the values of thoughtfulness, in-depth reflection, critical thinking, weighty and thorough analysis. The humanities’ very existence constitutes a guaranty against what is often described as populism.
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