Why the humanities matter : a commonsense approach / / Frederick Luis Aldama.
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 377 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: a new humanism
- Self, identity, and ideas
- Revisiting Derrida, Lacan, and Foucault
- Derrida gets medieval
- Imaginary empires, real nations
- Edward Said spaced out
- Modernity, what?
- Teachers, scholars, and the humanities today
- Translation matters
- Can music resist?
- The "cultural studies turn" in Brown studies
- Pulling up stakes in Latin/o American theoretical claims
- Fugitive thoughts on justice and happiness
- Why literature matters
- Interpretation, interdisciplinarity, and the people.