This volume examines the way in which we organize knowledge into disciplinesthen reorganize it into new configurations when the existing disciplines havecome to... » 

This volume examines the way in which we organize knowledge into disciplinesthen reorganize it into new configurations when the existing disciplines havecome to seem irrelevant or exclusory. Joe Moran traces the history and use ofthe term interdisciplinarity and tackles such vital topics as the rise of the disciplines interdisciplinary English Literary and Cultural Studies theory and the disciplines texts and histories literature science space and nature.Interdisciplinarity is the ideal entry point into one of todays most heatedcritical debates. «