Imprisoned in English

Imprisoned in English argues that in the present English-dominated world social sciences and the humanities are locked in a conceptual framework grounded in English and that most scholars in these fields are not aware of the need to break away from this framework to reach a more universal culture-independent perspective on things human. Indeed they are typically not aware that any problem exists and resistant to its being pointed out.The book engages with current debates across a range of disciplines including philosophy anthropology sociology evolutionary science psychology and cognitive science as well as linguistics. The topics include values emotions social cognition intercultural communication endangered languages human universals vs. human diversity the evolution of consciousness etc.It is a book dedicated to one central idea: the blind spot in contemporary social sciences and the prevailing global discourse on values the human condition human relations and so on which results from the invisibility of English as an increasingly globalized way of thinking and talking.