A Time for the Humanities : : Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy /

A Time for the Humanities : : Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy / / Tim Dean, Ewa Plonowska Ziarek; ed. by James J. Bono.

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This book brings together an international roster of renowned scholars from disciplines including philosophy, political theory, intellectual history, and literary studies to address the conceptual foundations of the humanities and the question of their future. What notions of the future, of the huma...

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VerfasserIn:
Dean, Tim,
Ziarek, Ewa Plonowska,
MitwirkendeR:
Benjamin, Andrew,
Bono, James J.,
Chow, Rey,
Dean, Tim,
Hayles, N. Katherine,
Jay, Martin,
Laclau, Ernesto,
Marrati, Paola,
McCaffery, Steve,
Nancy, Jean-Luc,
Plonowska Ziarek, Ewa,
Sommer, Doris,
Visker, Rudi,
Weed, Elizabeth,
HerausgeberIn:
Bono, James J.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (283 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Future, Heteronomy, Invention
  • Part I THE NEW AND ITS RISKS
  • 1. Life and Event: Deleuze on Newness
  • 2. A Precursor: Limiting the Future, Affirming Particularity
  • 3. Visual Parrhesia? Foucault and the Truth of the Gaze
  • Part II RHETORIC AND THE FUTURE OF THE POLITICAL
  • 4. Articulation and the Limits of Metaphor
  • 5. Answering for Sense
  • 6. “Human” in the Age of Disposable People: The Ambiguous Import of Kinship and Education in Blind Shaft
  • Part III HETERONOMY AND FUTURITY IN PSYCHOANALYSIS
  • 7. The Foreign, the Uncanny, and the Foreigner: Concepts of the Self and the Other in Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Philosophy
  • 8. An Impossible Embrace: Queerness, Futurity, and the Death Drive
  • 9. Luce Irigaray and the Question of Critique
  • Part IV INVENTIONS
  • 10. Parapoetics and the Architectural Leap
  • 11. The Future of Literature: Complex Surfaces of Electronic Texts and Print Books
  • 12. Crisis Means Turning Point: A Manifesto for Art and Accountability
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index

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