This companion is a cutting-edge primer to critical forms of the posthumanities and the feminist posthumanities, aimed at students and researchers who want to catch up with the recent theoretical developments in various fields in the humanities, such as new media studies, gender…
Centralization and over-professionalization can lead to the disappearance of a critical environment capable of linking the human sciences to the "real world." The authors of this volume suggest that the humanities need to operate in a concrete cultural environment able to influe…
Centralization and over-professionalization can lead to the disappearance of a critical environment capable of linking the discipline to the real world. The authors of this volume suggest that humanities need to operate in a concrete cultural environment able to influence proced…
Humor has been praised by philosophers and poets as a balm to soothe the sorrows that outrageous fortune's slings and arrows cause inevitably, if not incessantly, to each and every one of us. In mundane life, having a sense of humor is seen not only as a positive trait of charac…
"The trans-disciplinary study of law and the humanities is becoming a more widespread focus among scholars from a range of disciplines. Complementary in several major ways, concepts and theories of law can be used to formulate fresh ideas about the humanities, and vice versa. La…
"How can the humanities make an intervention in such a time as this, when life as we have known it hangs in pandemic balance since the spring of 2020-and when contagion calls for distancing and isolation, while loneliness cries out for the solace of touch? Perhaps only by being,…
"Humanities, Provocateur: Toward a Contemporary Political Aesthetics will 'occupy' the Humanities afresh in the contemporary, offering a set of speculations and conversations about a dissident aesthetics for these our times, which appear to be singularly out of joint. Where and …
To what extent do we and can we understand others - other peoples, species, times, and places? What is the role of others within ourselves, epitomized in the notion of unconscious forces? Can we come to terms with our internalized others in ways that foster mutual understanding …
by Project Muse, Garber, Marjorie B.
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