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Why the Humanities Matter: A Commonsense Approach

Frederick Luis Aldama
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Description: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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Why the Humanities Matter: A Commonsense Approach. To get started finding Why the Humanities Matter: A Commonsense Approach, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
391
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PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Release
2009
ISBN
0292784341

Why the Humanities Matter: A Commonsense Approach

Frederick Luis Aldama
4.4/5 (1290744 ratings)
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Description: 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Why the Humanities Matter: A Commonsense Approach. To get started finding Why the Humanities Matter: A Commonsense Approach, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
391
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Release
2009
ISBN
0292784341

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