Why the humanities matter : a commonsense approach / Frederick Luis Aldama.
| Author/creator |
Aldama, Frederick Luis, 1969- |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Publication Info | Austin : University of Texas Press, |
| Description | xiv, 377 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-348) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2008007807 |
| ISBN | 9780292717985 (cl. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0292717989 (cl. : alk. paper) |
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