Claim of Language: A Case for the Humanities

by Christopher Fynsk

Argues for the importance of humanities research in an era of globalization and technical reason

The humanities--in their conceptual and intellectual specificity, disciplinary rigor, and ethical, social, and political potential--are very much in need of defense and rearticulation in our time, particularly from a perspective that moves beyond the political and philosophical reductions of identity politics. In The Claim...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816644829
• ISBN13: 9780816644827
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.7" x 8.5"