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The Difference Aesthetics Makes
On the Humanities “After Man”
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English
Published/Copyright:
2019
About this book
Examining the work of writers and artists including Carrie Mae Weems, Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, and Allan deSouza, Kandice Chuh advocates for what she calls “illiberal humanism” as a way to counter the Eurocentric liberal humanism that perpetuates structures of social inequality.
Author / Editor information
Kandice Chuh is Professor of English and American Studies at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, author of Imagine Otherwise: On Asian Americanist Critique, and coeditor of Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora, both also published by Duke University Press.
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“Chuh provides a lucid, polemical, and extraordinarily persuasive proposal for reconceiving the humanities.... It is difficult to come away from The Difference Aesthetics Makes without feeling that it makes an exceptional contribution to cultural studies in particular and to the humanities at large.”
-- Kiron Ward Journal of American Studies
“In The Difference Aesthetics Makes, Kandice Chuh provides a fresh answer to an old question: What if losing the humanities as many have known them does not constitute a crisis? What if, after all, this so-called crisis affords an opportunity for the humanities to be remade?”
-- Michele Speitz Journal Of British Studies
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface
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Introduction. The Difference Aesthetics Makes
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Chapter 1. Knowledge under Cover
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Chapter 2. Pedagogies of Liberal Humanism
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Chapter 3. Making Sense Otherwise
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Chapter 4. Mis/Taken Universals
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Conclusion. On the Humanities “After Man”
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Postscript
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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eBook published on:
March 28, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9781478002383
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192
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2 illustrations
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9781478002383
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Professional and scholarly;
