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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
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“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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