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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.

Table of Contents:
Introduction. A New Humanism Chapter One. Self, Identity, and Ideas Chapter Two. Revisiting Derrida, Lacan, and Foucault Chapter Three. Derrida Gets Medieval Chapter Four. Imaginary Empires, Real Nations Chapter Five. Edward Said Spaced Out Chapter Six. Modernity, What? Chapter Seven. Teachers, Scholars, and the Humanities Today Chapter Eight. Translation Matters Chapter Nine. Can Music Resist? Chapter Ten. The "Cultural Studies Turn" in Brown Studies Chapter Eleven. Pulling up Stakes in Latin/o American Theoretical Claims Chapter Twelve. Fugitive Thoughts on Justice and Happiness Chapter Thirteen. Why Literature Matters Chapter Fourteen. Interpretation, Interdisciplinarity, and the People Notes Works Cited Index

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

Review :
"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


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780292717985
  • Publisher: University of Texas Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Texas Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 681 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0292717989
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 2008
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: A Commonsense Approach
  • Width: 152 mm


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