A Time for the Humanities Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy Edited by James J. Bono, Tim Dean, and Ewa Plonowska Ziarek $24.00 ISBN: 9780823229208 Book (Paperback) Fordham University Press 250 pages October 2008 Quantity:

“Opens a battlefront and conversation that is likely to preoccupy the next generation.”—Tom Cohen, University at Albany 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 unthought dimensions of praxis implicit in the very notion of futurity? The volume should be required reading for all who feel a deep commitment to the humanities, its practices, and its future. Contributors: Andrew Benjamin, James J. Bono, Rey Chow, Tim Dean, N. Katherine Hayles, Martin Jay, Ernesto Laclau, Paola Marrati, Steve McCaffery, Jean-Luc Nancy, Doris Sommer, Rudi Visker, Elizabeth Weed, and Ewa Plonowska Ziarek. JAMES J. BONO is Associate Professor of History and of Medicine at the University at Buffalo. TIM DEAN is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of the Humanities Institute at the University at Buffalo. EWA PLONOWSKA ZIAREK is Julian Park Professor of Comparative Literature and Founding Director of the Humanities Institute at the University at Buffalo.

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