Essays that propose a post-theoretical language
for the humanistic disciplines.
The essays in this collection focus on the essentially
moral desire within humanistic inquiry to seek a point of contact
between personal experience and intellectual reflection. The book
is concerned with the development of a plural vocabulary of transformation
that stems from the language of historians, philosophers, feminists,
and aestheticians. It delineates a significant and widespread change
in intellectual perspective that resists homogenizing the objects
of study to abstract conceptual models and structures. What emerges
from this volume are personal, responsible, situated languages that
engage intellectuals after the waves of abstract theory of the past
twenty years.
Contents
Preface Christie McDonald and Gary Wihl
History
Without Empiricism/Truth Without Facts Nancy F. Partner
How
Old Is Our Cultural Past? Judith Schlanger
The
Humor of the Present Isabelle Stengers
Naming
the Landscape: Leisure Travel and the Demise of the Salon Nancy
Austin
Beauty,
Language, and Re-Presentation: Notes Toward a Critique of Aesthetics--With
Special Reference to Architecture Karsten Harries
Making
Space: For a Poetry of Architecture Mary Ann Caws
Intentionality
Without Interiority: Wittgenstein and the Dynamics of Subjective
Agency Charles Altieri
Changing
One's Beliefs Jacques Schlanger
Theories
of Gender Rosi Braidotti
Stories
of Gender Sarah Westphal
Three
Renaissance Madonnas: Freud and the Feminine Mary Bittner Wiseman |
