Kandice Chuh is Professor of English and American Studies at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, author of Imagine Otherwise: On Asian Americanist Critique, and coeditor of Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora, both also published by Duke University Press.

“Chuh provides a lucid, polemical, and extraordinarily persuasive proposal for reconceiving the humanities.... It is difficult to come away from The Difference Aesthetics Makes without feeling that it makes an exceptional contribution to cultural studies in particular and to the humanities at large.” - Kiron Ward (Journal of American Studies) “In The Difference Aesthetics Makes, Kandice Chuh provides a fresh answer to an old question: What if losing the humanities as many have known them does not constitute a crisis? What if, after all, this so-called crisis affords an opportunity for the humanities to be remade?” - Michele Speitz (Journal Of British Studies)

• Preface  xiIntroduction. The Difference Aesthetics Makes  11. Knowledge under Cover  262. Pedagogies of Liberal Humanism  513. Making Sense Otherwise  744. Mis/Taken Universals  89Conclusion. On the Humanities "After Man"  122Postscript  126Notes  131Bibliography  159Index  175

Kandice Chuh is Professor of English and American Studies at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, author of Imagine Otherwise: On Asian Americanist Critique, and coeditor of Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora, both also published by Duke University Press.

“Chuh provides a lucid, polemical, and extraordinarily persuasive proposal for reconceiving the humanities.... It is difficult to come away from The Difference Aesthetics Makes without feeling that it makes an exceptional contribution to cultural studies in particular and to the humanities at large.” - Kiron Ward (Journal of American Studies) “In The Difference Aesthetics Makes, Kandice Chuh provides a fresh answer to an old question: What if losing the humanities as many have known them does not constitute a crisis? What if, after all, this so-called crisis affords an opportunity for the humanities to be remade?” - Michele Speitz (Journal Of British Studies)

• Preface  xiIntroduction. The Difference Aesthetics Makes  11. Knowledge under Cover  262. Pedagogies of Liberal Humanism  513. Making Sense Otherwise  744. Mis/Taken Universals  89Conclusion. On the Humanities "After Man"  122Postscript  126Notes  131Bibliography  159Index  175

Kandice Chuh is Professor of English and American Studies at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, author of Imagine Otherwise: On Asian Americanist Critique, and coeditor of Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora, both also published by Duke University Press.

“Chuh provides a lucid, polemical, and extraordinarily persuasive proposal for reconceiving the humanities.... It is difficult to come away from The Difference Aesthetics Makes without feeling that it makes an exceptional contribution to cultural studies in particular and to the humanities at large.” - Kiron Ward (Journal of American Studies) “In The Difference Aesthetics Makes, Kandice Chuh provides a fresh answer to an old question: What if losing the humanities as many have known them does not constitute a crisis? What if, after all, this so-called crisis affords an opportunity for the humanities to be remade?” - Michele Speitz (Journal Of British Studies)

• Preface  xiIntroduction. The Difference Aesthetics Makes  11. Knowledge under Cover  262. Pedagogies of Liberal Humanism  513. Making Sense Otherwise  744. Mis/Taken Universals  89Conclusion. On the Humanities "After Man"  122Postscript  126Notes  131Bibliography  159Index  175