A Time for the Humanities : Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy / Tim Dean, Ewa Plonowska Ziarek; ed. by James J. Bono.
Dean, Tim, author.; Benjamin, Andrew, contributor.; Bono, James J., contributor.; Bono, James J., editor.; Chow, Rey, contributor.; Dean, Tim, contributor.; Hayles, N. Katherine, contributor.; Jay, Martin, contributor.; Laclau, Ernesto, contributor.; Marrati, Paola, contributor.; McCaffery, Steve, contributor.; Nancy, Jean-Luc, contributor.; Plonowska Ziarek, Ewa, contributor.; Sommer, Doris, contributor.; Visker, Rudi, contributor.; Weed, Elizabeth, contributor.; Ziarek, Ewa Plonowska, author.
2009
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A Time for the Humanities : Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy / Tim Dean, Ewa Plonowska Ziarek; ed. by James J. Bono.
Author
Dean, Tim, author.
ISBN
9780823237289
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823237289
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2009
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (283 p.)
Item Number
10.1515/9780823237289 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification
001.3
Summary
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 essays here argue that the uncertainty of the future represents both an opportunity for critical engagement and a matrix for invention. Broadly conceived, the notion of invention, or cultural poiesis, questions the key assumptions and tasks of a whole range of practices in the humanities, beginning with critique, artistic practices, and intellectual inquiry, and ending with technology, emancipatory politics, and ethics. The essays discuss a wide range of key figures (e.g., Deleuze, Freud, Lacan, Foucault, Kristeva, Irigaray), problems (e.g., becoming, kinship and the foreign, "disposable populations" within a global political economy, queerness and the death drive, the parapoetic, electronic textuality, invention and accountability, political and social reform in Latin America), disciplines and methodologies (philosophy, art and art history, visuality, political theory, criticism and critique, psychoanalysis, gender analysis, architecture, literature, art). The volume should be required reading for all who feel a deep commitment to the humanities, its practices, and its future.
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Benjamin, Andrew, contributor.
Bono, James J., contributor.
Bono, James J., editor.
Chow, Rey, contributor.
Dean, Tim, contributor.
Hayles, N. Katherine, contributor.
Jay, Martin, contributor.
Laclau, Ernesto, contributor.
Marrati, Paola, contributor.
McCaffery, Steve, contributor.
Nancy, Jean-Luc, contributor.
Plonowska Ziarek, Ewa, contributor.
Sommer, Doris, contributor.
Visker, Rudi, contributor.
Weed, Elizabeth, contributor.
Ziarek, Ewa Plonowska, author.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Future, Heteronomy, Invention
Part I THE NEW AND ITS RISKS
1. Life and Event: Deleuze on Newness
2. A Precursor: Limiting the Future, Affirming Particularity
3. Visual Parrhesia? Foucault and the Truth of the Gaze
Part II RHETORIC AND THE FUTURE OF THE POLITICAL
4. Articulation and the Limits of Metaphor
5. Answering for Sense
6. "Human" in the Age of Disposable People: The Ambiguous Import of Kinship and Education in Blind Shaft
Part III HETERONOMY AND FUTURITY IN PSYCHOANALYSIS
7. The Foreign, the Uncanny, and the Foreigner: Concepts of the Self and the Other in Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Philosophy
8. An Impossible Embrace: Queerness, Futurity, and the Death Drive
9. Luce Irigaray and the Question of Critique
Part IV INVENTIONS
10. Parapoetics and the Architectural Leap
11. The Future of Literature: Complex Surfaces of Electronic Texts and Print Books
12. Crisis Means Turning Point: A Manifesto for Art and Accountability
Notes
Contributors
Index

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