Why the humanities matter a commonsense approach /

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Main Author: Aldama, Frederick Luis, 1969-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: a new humanism
  • Self, identity, and ideas
  • Revisiting Derrida, Lacan, and Foucault
  • Derrida gets medieval
  • Imaginary empires, real nations
  • Edward Said spaced out
  • Modernity, what?
  • Teachers, scholars, and the humanities today
  • Translation matters
  • Can music resist?
  • The "cultural studies turn" in Brown studies
  • Pulling up stakes in Latin/o American theoretical claims
  • Fugitive thoughts on justice and happiness
  • Why literature matters
  • Interpretation, interdisciplinarity, and the people.