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Availability:In StockContributor:Amanda Anderson, Simon DuringSeries:Literature and PoliticsTheme:Chronological Period/20th CenturyPublish date:2026-01-07Pages:128
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198918783ISBN-10:019891878XUPC:9780198918783Book Category:Literary Criticism, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Modern, Essays, Semiotics & TheoryBook Topic:20th CenturySize:8.54 x 5.54 x 0.33 inchesWeight:0.39Product ID:SCV07QAE4R
Humanities Theory pioneers a new topic: the theory of the humanities. It is an urgent topic right now because the humanities face a suite of forceful new challenges and are in a period of significant change. For these reasons, it has become important to analyse and understand what the humanities are as a whole, beyond disciplinary divisions and yet without resorting to simplistic notions of their worth. Remarkably little attention has been paid to this topic. Most discussions of the humanities have been polemical if not defensive. This book argues that there exists a global humanities world which not only transcends disciplinary divisions but joins the professional academic humanities to a thriving amateur public humanities. This world has no essence, it is plural. Nevertheless, powerful, if contested, ethical orientations run through it and help shape it, including a will to truthfulness, a will to openness and generosity, a will to examine values. In their essays Simon During and Amanda Anderson each bring different emphases to their shared orientation towards a large plural humanities world:
During analyses how key disciplines--sociology, philosophy and history--might be used to think about the humanities as a whole and, on this basis, offers some predictions of the future awaiting the humanities.
Anderson analyzes media representations of the humanities and considers the general conceptual frameworks through which the humanities focus on value and proffer critique. She analyses a series of examples of contemporary critical engagements in the humanities to press a case for value pluralism in the humanities and the university more broadly.
During analyses how key disciplines--sociology, philosophy and history--might be used to think about the humanities as a whole and, on this basis, offers some predictions of the future awaiting the humanities.
Anderson analyzes media representations of the humanities and considers the general conceptual frameworks through which the humanities focus on value and proffer critique. She analyses a series of examples of contemporary critical engagements in the humanities to press a case for value pluralism in the humanities and the university more broadly.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198918783ISBN-10:019891878XUPC:9780198918783Book Category:Literary Criticism, Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Modern, Essays, Semiotics & TheoryBook Topic:20th CenturySize:8.54 x 5.54 x 0.33 inchesWeight:0.39Product ID:SCV07QAE4R
Amanda Anderson, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and English and Director, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University, Simon During, Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne Amanda Anderson is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English and Humanities and Director of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University. She is the author, most recently, of Psyche and Ethos: Moral Life after Psychology (Oxford, 2018) and Bleak Liberalism (Chicago, 2016). She previously served as the Director of the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell and serves on the advisory board of the international Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI). Simon During, educated in New Zealand and at Cambridge, has taught at the University of Melbourne and Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of pioneering work in post-colonialism, cultural studies, and the history of entertainment but in recent years has concentrated on thinking about literature and the humanities under their difficult contemporary conditions.
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