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1 online resource (xiv, 178 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Knowledge under cover -- Pedagogies of liberal humanism -- Making sense otherwise -- Mis/taking the universal |
| Summary |
In 'The Difference Aesthetics Makes' cultural critic Kandice Chuh asks what the humanities might be and do if organized around what she calls "illiberal humanism" instead of around the Western European tradition of liberal humanism that undergirds the humanities in their received form. Recognizing that the liberal humanities contribute to the reproduction of the subjugation that accompanies liberalism's definition of the human, Chuh argues that instead of defending the humanities, as has been widely called for in recent years, we should radically remake them. Chuh proposes that the work of artists and writers like Lan Samantha Chang, Carrie Mae Weems, Langston Hughes, Leslie Marmon Silko, Allan deSouza, Monique Truong, and others brings to bear ways of being and knowing that delegitimize liberal humanism in favor of more robust, capacious, and worldly senses of the human and the humanities. Chuh presents the aesthetics of illiberal humanism as vital to the creation of sensibilities and worlds capable of making life and lives flourish |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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Asian American Studies Book Award--Interdisciplinary/Media Studies, 2021 |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for Humanities and Cultural Studies (Interdisciplinary/Media Studies), 2021 |
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Aesthetics -- Political aspects
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American literature -- Political aspects
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Art, Modern -- 21st century -- Political aspects -- United States
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Politics and culture.
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Literature -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Humanism -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Eurocentrism.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Metaphysics.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
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Aesthetics -- Political aspects
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American literature -- Political aspects
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Art, Modern -- Political aspects
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Eurocentrism
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Literature -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Politics and culture
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Ästhetik
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Eurozentrismus
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Humanismus
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Literatur
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Mensch
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Politische Soziologie
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Sensibilität
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United States
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USA
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2018053991 |
| ISBN |
9781478002383 |
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1478002387 |
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