Share This Page
Transformations in Personhood and Culture after Theory
The Languages of History, Aesthetics, and Ethics
208 pages | 15 illustrations | 6 x 9 | 1994
Cloth edition is not available
ISBN 978-0-271-02606-0 | paper: $28.95 sh
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.
Christie McDonald is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University and author of The Proustian Fabric (Nebraska, 1991).
Gary Wihl is Associate Professor of English at McGill University.
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