A Time for the Humanities: Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy

Bys: Dean, Tim and Ziarek, Ewa Plonowska

Book Overview

This book brings together an international roster of renowned scholars from disciplines including philosophy, political theory, intellectual history, and literary studies to address the conceptual foundations of the humanities and the question of their future. What notions of the future, of the human, and of finitude underlie recurring anxieties about the humanities in our current geopolitical situation? How can we think about the unpredictable and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823229203
• ISBN13: 9780823229208
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 283 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.7"