The future without a past : the humanities in a technological society / / John Paul Russo.

"Argues that technological imperatives like rationalization, universalism, monism, and autonomy have transformed the humanities and altered the relation between humans and nature. Examines technology and its impact on education, historical memory, and technological and literary values in critic...

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Year of Publication:2005
Language:English
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Physical Description:x, 313 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • The future of the humanities in a technological society
  • The great forgetting : library, media center, and Las Vegas
  • The circle of knowledge : science and the humanistic curriculum from Petrarch to Trilling
  • Belief and sincerity
  • The tranquilized poem : the crisis of the new criticism
  • The disappearance of the self : contemporary theories of autobiography
  • Don Delillo : ethnicity, religion, and the critique of technology.