Humanities Theory

Humanities Theory argues that there exists a global humanities world which not only transcends disciplinary divisions but joins the professional academic humanities to a thriving amateur public humanities. Two scholars with differing approaches provide essays engaging on this timely and important topic--the theory of the humanities.

Info autore

Amanda Anderson is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English and Humanities and Director of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University. She is the author, most recently, of Psyche and Ethos: Moral Life after Psychology (Oxford, 2018) and Bleak Liberalism (Chicago, 2016). She previously served as the Director of the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell and serves on the advisory board of the international Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI).

Simon During, educated in New Zealand and at Cambridge, has taught at the University of Melbourne and Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of pioneering work in post-colonialism, cultural studies, and the history of entertainment but in recent years has concentrated on thinking about literature and the humanities under their difficult contemporary conditions.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: During Simon, Anderson Amanda, Amanda (Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Hu Anderson
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 07.10.2025
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi > Saggi, articoli culturali, critica letteraria, int; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata
• EAN: 9780198918776
• ISBN: 978-0-19-891877-6
• Numero di pagine: 128
• Serie: Literature And Politics
• Categorie: PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Comparative Politics, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary essays, Literary theory, Political science and theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000