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A Face Drawn in Sand : Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present
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A Face Drawn in Sand : Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present / Rey Chow.
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9780231547796
Publication
New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2021]
Copyright Notice Date
©2020
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1 online resource
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In English.
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Summary
Leadership, innovation, diversity, inclusiveness, sharing, accountability-such is the resounding administrative refrain we keep hearing in the contemporary Western university. What kinds of benefits does this refrain generate? For whom? What discursive incitements undergird such benefits? Although there are innumerable discussions of Michel Foucault in the English-speaking academy, seldom is his work used systematically to unravel the dead ends and potentialities of humanistic inquiry as embedded in these simple but dynamic questions.Rey Chow takes up this challenge by articulating the plight of the humanities in the age of global finance and neoliberal mores through a resharpened focus on Foucault's concept "outside." This general discussion is followed by a series of micro-arguments about several loosely linked topics: the biopolitics of literary study, visibilities and invisibilities, race and racism, sound/voice/listening, and confession and self-entrepreneurship. Against what she polemicizes as the moralistic-entrepreneurial norming of knowledge production, Chow foregrounds a nonutilitarian approach, stressing anew the intellectual and pedagogical objectives fundamental to humanistic inquiry: How to process, analyze, and evaluate different types of texts across languages and disciplines; how to form and sustain viable arguments; how to rethink familiar problems through less known as well as very well-known sources, figures, and methods. Above all, she asks in an abidingly humanistic spirit, how not to know all the answers before the questions have been posed.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 14, 2021
Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Part I Humanistic Inquiry in the Era of the Moralist- Entrepreneur
Introduction Rearticulating "Outside"
Part II Exercises in the Unthought
1 Literary Study's Biopolitics
2 " There Is a 'There Is' of Light"; or, Foucault's (In)visibilities
3 Thinking "Race" with Foucault It
4 "Fragments at Once Random and Necessary" The Énoncé Revisited, Alongside Acousmatic Listening
5 From the Confessing Animal to the Smartself
CODA Intimations from a Series of Faces Drawn in Sand
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
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