Why the Humanities Matter

A Commonsense Approach

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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Beskrivning

Is there life after postmodernism? Many claim that it sounded the death knell for history, art, ideology, science, possibly all of Western philosophy, and certainly for the concept of reality itself. Responding to essential questions regarding whether the humanities can remain politically and academically relevant amid this twenty-first-century uncertainty, Why the Humanities Matter offers a guided tour of the modern condition, calling upon thinkers in a variety of disciplines to affirm essential concepts such as truth, goodness, and beauty.Offering a lens of "new humanism," Frederick Aldama also provides a liberating examination of the current cultural repercussions of assertions by such revolutionary theorists as Said, Foucault, Lacan, and Derrida, as well as Latin Americanists such as Sommer and Mignolo. Emphasizing pedagogy and popular culture with equal verve, and writing in colloquial yet multifaceted prose, Aldama presents an enlightening way to explore what "culture" actually does-who generates it and how it shapes our identities-and the role of academia in sustaining it.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-06-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:391
Förlag:University of Texas Press
ISBN:9780292725935

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Frederick Luis Aldama is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at the Ohio State University.

Recensioner i media

"This is one of the most versatile, colloquially written, and philosophically astute readings of the American politics of race and the university that one can find anywhere. In the name of a 'new humanism' based on struggle, Aldama draws (at times humorously) on his experiences as a teacher to give a persuasive account of the self based (of all things) on neuroscience and evolutionary biology. An exciting book." Timothy Brennan, Professor, Departments of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, and English, University of Minnesota

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction. A New HumanismChapter One. Self, Identity, and IdeasChapter Two. Revisiting Derrida, Lacan, and FoucaultChapter Three. Derrida Gets MedievalChapter Four. Imaginary Empires, Real NationsChapter Five. Edward Said Spaced OutChapter Six. Modernity, What?Chapter Seven. Teachers, Scholars, and the Humanities TodayChapter Eight. Translation MattersChapter Nine. Can Music Resist?Chapter Ten. The "Cultural Studies Turn" in Brown StudiesChapter Eleven. Pulling up Stakes in Latin/o American Theoretical ClaimsChapter Twelve. Fugitive Thoughts on Justice and HappinessChapter Thirteen. Why Literature MattersChapter Fourteen. Interpretation, Interdisciplinarity, and the PeopleNotesWorks CitedIndex