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A Defense of Judgment (Hardcover)
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A Defense of Judgment (Hardcover)
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Teachers of literature make judgments about value. They tell their
students which works are powerful, beautiful, surprising, strange,
or insightful-and thus, which are more worthy of time and attention
than others. Yet the field of literary studies has largely
disavowed judgments of artistic value on the grounds that they are
inevitably rooted in prejudice or entangled in problems of social
status. For several decades now, professors have called their work
value-neutral, simply a means for students to gain cultural,
political, or historical knowledge. Michael W. Clune's provocative
book challenges these objections to judgment and offers a positive
account of literary studies as an institution of aesthetic
education. It is impossible, Clune argues, to separate judgments
about literary value from the practices of interpretation and
analysis that constitute any viable model of literary expertise.
Clune envisions a progressive politics freed from the strictures of
dogmatic equality and enlivened by education in aesthetic judgment,
transcending consumer culture and market preferences. Drawing on
psychological and philosophical theories of knowledge and
perception, Clune advocates for the cultivation of what John Keats
called "negative capability," the capacity to place existing
criteria in doubt and to discover new concepts and new values in
artworks. Moving from theory to practice, Clune takes up works by
Keats, Emily Dickinson, Gwendolyn Brooks, Samuel Beckett, and
Thomas Bernhard, showing how close reading-the profession's
traditional key skill-harnesses judgment to open new modes of
perception.
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