A Future for the Humanities: Praxis, Heteronomy, Invention brings
together an international roster of renowned scholars from
disciplines such as philosophy, political theory, intellectual
history, and literary studies to address the pressing question of
the future of the humanities. Whereas many recent works have
addressed this question in primarily pragmatic terms, this book
seeks to examine its conceptual foundations. What notions of
futurity, of the human, and of finitude underlie recurring
anxieties about the humanities' future in our current geopolitical
situation? How can we think about the unpredictable and unthought
dimensions of praxis implicit in the very notion of futurity?
Although hailing from disparate disciplines and taking different
angles on these questions, the essays we have assembled argue
collectively that the uncertainty of the future represents both an
opportunity for critical engagement and the very matrix for
invention. Such a broadly conceived 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 in
this volume 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;
politicaltheory; criticism and critique; psychoanalysis; gender
analysis; architecture; literature; art). This volume should be
required reading for all who feel a deep commitment to the
humanities, its practices, and its future. It will prove
indispensable to a wide range of scholars, practitioners, and
disciplines: philosophy, history, literature, political science,
visual studies, art history, gender studies, film studies,
psychoanalysis, poetics, architecture, technology studies, and art.
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