A Time for the Humanities : Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy.
Title:
A Time for the Humanities : Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy.
Author:
Dean, Tim.
ISBN:
9780823247370
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (284 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I - The New and Its Risks -- Chapter 1 - Life and Event: Deleuze on Newness -- Chapter 2 - A Precursor: Limiting the Future, Affirming Particularity -- Chapter 3 - Visual Parrhesia?: Foucault and the Truth of the Gaze -- Part II - Rhetoric and the Future of the Political -- Chapter 4 - Articulation and the Limits of Metaphor -- Chapter 5 - Answering for Sense -- Chapter 6 - "Human" in the Age of Disposable People: The Ambiguous Import of Kinship and Education in Blind Shaft -- Part III - Heteronomy and Futurity in Psychoanalysis -- Chapter 7 - The Foreign, the Uncanny, and the Foreigner: Concepts of the Self and the Other in Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Philosophy -- Chapter 8 - An Impossible Embrace: Queerness, Futurity, and the Death Drive -- Chapter 9 - Luce Irigaray and the Question of Critique -- Part IV - Inventions -- Chapter 10 - Parapoetics and the Architectural Leap -- Chapter 11 - The Future of Literature: Complex Surfaces of Electronic Texts and Print Books -- Chapter 12 - Crisis Means Turning Point: A Manifesto for Art and Accountability -- Notes -- Index.
Abstract:
Opens a battlefront and conversation that is likely to preoccupy the next generation.GTom Cohen, University at Albany.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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