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Author Chambers, Iain

Title Culture after humanism : history, culture, subjectivity / Iain Chambers
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (x, 230 pages)
Series Comedia
Comedia.
Contents A question of history -- Earth frames: Heidegger, humanism and 'home' -- History, the Baroque and the judgement of angels -- A voice in the dark, a map of memory -- Architecture, amnesia and the emergent archaic -- A stranger in the house -- The edge of the world
Summary "Culture after Humanism asks what happens to the authority of traditional Western modes of thought in the wake of postcolonial theory. Drawing on examples from music, architecture, literature, philosophy and art, Iain chambers investigates moments of tension - interruptions which transform our perception of the world and test the limits of language, art and technology." "Chambers weaves together a critique of Western humanism, exploring issues of colonisation and migration, language and identity. He offers a new approach to cultural history, a 'post-humanist' perspective which challenges our sense of a world in which the subject is sovereign, language the transparent medium of its agency, and truth the product of reason."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-223) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Philosophy, Modern.
Civilization, Modern -- 1950-
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Civilization, Modern
Philosophy, Modern
Kulturvergleich
Soziologische Theorie
Subjektivität
Geschichtsdenken
Humanismus
Cultuurfilosofie.
Humanisme (levensbeschouwing)
Modernisme (cultuur)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781136400377
1136400370
9781315012636
1315012634