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Selling the Humanities: Essays [Pehme köide]

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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 222 pages, kõrgus x laius: 229x152 mm, kaal: 284 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2024
  • Kirjastus: Texas Review Press
  • ISBN-10: 1680033182
  • ISBN-13: 9781680033182
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 222 pages, kõrgus x laius: 229x152 mm, kaal: 284 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2024
  • Kirjastus: Texas Review Press
  • ISBN-10: 1680033182
  • ISBN-13: 9781680033182
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One must always be prepared to sell the humanities to others in an effort to save them—but is this something we are prepared to do?  Selling the Humanities explores the challenges facing literature, philosophy, and theory at a time when the humanities face incredible pressure to demonstrate their value.

Selling the Humanities explores the challenges facing literature, philosophy, and theory at a time when the humanities appear to some as burnt out.  There is incredible pressure to demonstrate the value of the humanities within institutions dedicated to economic feasibility and job placement, not intellectual power and social commitment.  This situation is further intensified
by the demand that one must always be prepared to sell the humanities to others in an effort to save them.  But is it even possible to commodify the humanities?  And if so, might our efforts to sell the humanities also have the potential to kill them in the process?

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Instead of predictably lamenting the devaluation of the humanities, avant-pop intellectual Jeffrey R. Di Leos Selling the Humanities does the exact opposite: it invites us to use the art of publishing as a strategic intervention into academias financialized regimes of truth to revalue the humanities. Essential reading!Mark Amerika, Professor of Distinction, University of Colorado

Jeffrey R. Di Leo represents Texas scholarly royalty. If he were a jazz musician we would call him Duke or Count. If he played ball we would have to find a nickname for him. I would call him Mr. Book or maybe just Page. This man continues to do important academic work. When will we return to the business of protecting the humanities? Di Leo has written a book not just for the campus president but also the general community. These twenty-four essays are fresh produce. Selling The Humanities is filled with nourishing food for thought.E. Ethelbert Miller, writer, literary activist, and host of On The Margin (WPFW 89.3 FM)

[ Selling the Humanities] is a high-speed tour comprising twenty-four brief (3000-word) essays. You move past these exhibits not shuffling along behind a lugubrious museum docent but rather speeding in a red El Dorado convertibleH. Aram Veeser, author of The Rebirth of American Literary Theory and Criticism

      Preface



Happiness for Sale
The Writers Journal
Industrial Disease  
The Speed of Publishing
Suspicious Minds
The Town Book Building
Dark Shadows
The Self-Publishing Revolution
Tumbleweed Connections
Wax Power
A Fig Leaf for Literature
Fashionable Philosophy
Dead Criticism
Dont Shoot the Journal Editor
Does Philosophy Need a Story?
Music contra Life
Has Literature Run Out of Steam?
The Blooming of American Literature
Philosophy without Apologies
Freethinkers and Heretics
The Generous Professor 
Democracy and the Humanities
This Humanities Which Is Not One
The Humanities Toolbox



Afterword by H. Aram Veeser
Acknowledgements
Notes
Sources
Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria. He is editor and founder of the critical theory journal symplok, editor and publisher of the American Book Review, and Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange and its Winter Theory Institute.