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Why the humanities matter a commonsense approach
Title
Why the humanities matter [electronic resource] : a commonsense approach / Frederick Luis Aldama.
ISBN
0292793979
9780292793972
0292717989 (cl. : alk. paper)
9780292717985 (cl. : alk. paper)
Edition
1st ed.
Published
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 377 p. )
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Archival Complete Foundation Collection
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Books Archival Subscription Plan
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Philosophy and Religion Foundation Collection
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 13, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-348) and index.
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.
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