Selling the Humanities explores the challenges facing literature, philosophy, and theory at a time when the humanities appear to some as burnt out. There is incredible pressure to demonstrate the value of the humanities within institutions dedicated to economic feasibility and job placement, not intellectual power and social commitment. This situation is further intensified by the demand that one must always be prepared to sell the humanities to others in an effort to save them. But is it even possible to commodify the humanities? And if so, might our efforts to sell the humanities also have the potential to kill them in the process?…mehr
Selling the Humanities explores the challenges facing literature, philosophy, and theory at a time when the humanities appear to some as burnt out. There is incredible pressure to demonstrate the value of the humanities within institutions dedicated to economic feasibility and job placement, not intellectual power and social commitment. This situation is further intensified by the demand that one must always be prepared to sell the humanities to others in an effort to save them. But is it even possible to commodify the humanities? And if so, might our efforts to sell the humanities also have the potential to kill them in the process?
Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria. He is editor and founder of the critical theory journal symplokē, editor and publisher of the American Book Review, and Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange and its Winter Theory Institute.
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* Preface 1. Happiness for Sale 2. The Writer’s Journal 3. Industrial Disease 4. The Speed of Publishing 5. Suspicious Minds 6. The Town Book Building 7. Dark Shadows 8. The Self-Publishing Revolution 9. Tumbleweed Connections 10. Wax Power 11. A Fig Leaf for Literature 12. Fashionable Philosophy 13. Dead Criticism 14. Don’t Shoot the Journal Editor 15. Does Philosophy Need a Story? 16. Music contra Life 17. Has Literature Run Out of Steam? 18. The Blooming of American Literature 19. Philosophy without Apologies 20. Freethinkers and Heretics 21. The Generous Professor 22. Democracy and the Humanities 23. This Humanities Which Is Not One 24. The Humanities Toolbox * Afterword by H. Aram Veeser * Acknowledgements * Notes * Sources
* Preface 1. Happiness for Sale 2. The Writer’s Journal 3. Industrial Disease 4. The Speed of Publishing 5. Suspicious Minds 6. The Town Book Building 7. Dark Shadows 8. The Self-Publishing Revolution 9. Tumbleweed Connections 10. Wax Power 11. A Fig Leaf for Literature 12. Fashionable Philosophy 13. Dead Criticism 14. Don’t Shoot the Journal Editor 15. Does Philosophy Need a Story? 16. Music contra Life 17. Has Literature Run Out of Steam? 18. The Blooming of American Literature 19. Philosophy without Apologies 20. Freethinkers and Heretics 21. The Generous Professor 22. Democracy and the Humanities 23. This Humanities Which Is Not One 24. The Humanities Toolbox * Afterword by H. Aram Veeser * Acknowledgements * Notes * Sources
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