Offering a lens of "new humanism," Frederick Aldama also provides a liberating examination of the current cultural repercussions of assertions by such revolutionary theorists as Said, Foucault, Lacan, and Derrida, as well as Latin Americanists such as Sommer and Mignolo. Emphasizing pedagogy and popular culture with equal verve, and writing in colloquial yet multifaceted prose, Aldama presents an enlightening way to explore what "culture" actually doeswho generates it and how it shapes our identitiesand the role of academia in sustaining it.
Offering a lens of "new humanism," Frederick Aldama also provides a liberating examination of the current cultural repercussions of assertions by such revolutionary theorists as Said, Foucault, Lacan, and Derrida, as well as Latin Americanists such as Sommer and Mignolo. Emphasizing pedagogy and popular culture with equal verve, and writing in colloquial yet multifaceted prose, Aldama presents an enlightening way to explore what "culture" actually doeswho generates it and how it shapes our identitiesand the role of academia in sustaining it.
Why the Humanities Matter: A Commonsense Approach
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ISBN-13: | 9780292725935 |
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Publisher: | University of Texas Press |
Publication date: | 06/01/2008 |
Pages: | 391 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.87(d) |