Spanos Toward a Non-humanist Humanism

Theory after 9/11
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6598-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Assesses the limits and possibilities of humanism for engaging with issues of pressing political and cultural concern.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Spanos, William V.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments

1. Posthumanism in the Age of Globalization: Rethinking The End of Education

2. Speaking the Lie of the Truth to Power: A Meditation on the Truth of Modernity by an Incorrigible Caviler

3. American Exceptionalism and the State of Exception: A Genealogy of the Contemporary Security State

4. The Human in Modernity: A Genealogy of Bare Life

5. Revoking the Vocational Imperative: Post-poststructuralist Theory and the Interrogation of the Interpellative Call

6. Edward W. Said and World Literature: Thinking the Worldly Imperatives of the Interregnum

Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

William V. Spanos is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is the author of many books, including American Exceptionalism in the Age of Globalization: The Specter of Vietnam and Herman Melville and the American Calling: The Fiction after Moby-Dick, 1851–1857, both also published by SUNY Press.