Eric Touya de Marenne

The Case for the Humanities (eBook, PDF)

Pedagogy, Polity, Interdisciplinarity

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Countering the perception that the humanities are unessential, this volume contends that their well-being has not only academic but also cultural, political, and existential ramifications. Our technologically-driven world possesses the means of its own destruction, while economic and financial policies undermine the very existence of our democracy. At the same time, the postmodern and post-human age fundamentally challenges our ability and legitimacy to conceive future ideals. It is within this context that the humanities provide essential paths through which the teaching and knowledge of other academic fields such as STEM and economics must be re-envisioned. In short, the humanities must be brought back to the center of academic life. The political and pedagogical implications of this interdisciplinary study thus entail a renewed critique to rethink the relation between higher education, society, and the world at large (politically, economically, scientifically, and technologically) and the importance of the humanities within it.At the heart of this reconsideration, the humanities' and humanity's fate and future become one.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216303220
• Artikelnr.: 74845378

Autorenporträt

Eric Touya de Marenne received his Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Chicago and he is currently Associate Professor of French at Clemson University. He is the author of Musique et poétique à l'âge du symbolisme (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2005), French-American Relations: Remembering D-Day after September 11 (University Press of America, 2008) and Francophone Women Writers: Feminisms, Postcolonialisms, Cross-Cultures (Lexington Books Publishing, 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
The Humanities at Risk
Disconnections: Theory, Society, Politics
The Limits of Anti-Foundationalism and Anti-Humanism
The End of Democracy?
Pedagogical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
After the Postmodern/Post-human?
The Case for the Humanities
Chapter 1: The Humanities in the City
Polity and Pedagogy: Beyond Relativity
Public School, Music, and CitizenshipSeneca and the Necessity of Virtue
Studia Humanitatis and Realpolitik
Cultivating Alterity The Postmodern and Utilitarian Challenge
Beyond Borders: Bettering Humanity
Chapter 2: Humanizing Economics
The Market and Liberal Education
Uncovering the Rhetoric of Economics
Historicism, Narrative, Empathy
Questioning Homo Economicus
Globalization with a Human Face
Chapter 3: Searching for STEM's Telos
The Limits of Science
Da Vinci's Hostinato Rigore
Deciphering Einstein's Interdisciplinary Mind
Toward a Poetics of the Universe
Jonas' Ethics of Responsibility
A Liberal Arts' Pedagogy for Technology?
The Challenges of Transhumanism/Posthumanism
Chapter 4: Transcendent Humanities
Transmitting Heritage
Bibliotherapy and Healing Humanities
Remembering Auschwitz
Rwanda and Multidirectional Memories
Toward Empathy and Meaning
Women Transcending Margins
Contrapuntal Readings
Bibliography
About the Author