Why the Humanities Matter: A Commonsense ApproachUniversity of Texas Press, 15 sept 2009 - 391 páginas This wide-ranging study of the influence of postmodernism on contemporary culture offers a trenchant and uplifting defense of the humanities. Is there life after postmodernism? Many claim that it sounded the death knell for history, art, ideology, science, possibly all of Western philosophy, and even 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. Through a lens of “new humanism,” Frederick Aldama 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, 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. |
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2 Revisiting Derrida Lacan and Foucault | 20 |
3 Derrida Gets Medieval | 44 |
4 Imaginary Empires Real Nations | 58 |
5 Edward Said Spaced Out | 74 |
6 Modernity What? | 93 |
7 Teachers Scholars and the Humanities Today | 106 |
8 Translation Matters | 124 |
10 The Cultural Studies Turn in Brown Studies | 167 |
11 Pulling up Stakes in Latino American Theoretical Claims | 192 |
12 Fugitive Thoughts on Justice and Happiness | 213 |
13 Why Literature Matters | 234 |
14 Interpretation Interdisciplinarity and the People | 265 |
Notes | 279 |
Works Cited | 327 |
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