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OverviewIn The Difference Aesthetics Makes cultural critic Kandice Chuh asks what the humanities might be and do if organized around what she calls ""illiberal humanism"" instead of around the Western European tradition of liberal humanism that undergirds the humanities in their received form. Recognizing that the liberal humanities contribute to the reproduction of the subjugation that accompanies liberalism's definition of the human, Chuh argues that instead of defending the humanities, as has been widely called for in recent years, we should radically remake them. Chuh proposes that the work of artists and writers like Lan Samantha Chang, Carrie Mae Weems, Langston Hughes, Leslie Marmon Silko, Allan deSouza, Monique Truong, and others brings to bear ways of being and knowing that delegitimize liberal humanism in favor of more robust, capacious, and worldly senses of the human and the humanities. Chuh presents the aesthetics of illiberal humanism as vital to the creation of sensibilities and worlds capable of making life and lives flourish. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kandice ChuhPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Weight: 0.408kg ISBN: 9781478000709ISBN 10: 1478000708 Pages: 277 Publication Date: 01 April 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print ![]() This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsPreface xi Introduction. The Difference Aesthetics Makes 1 1. Knowledge under Cover 26 2. Pedagogies of Liberal Humanism 51 3. Making Sense Otherwise 74 4. Mis/Taken Universals 89 Conclusion. On the Humanities ""After Man"" 122 Postscript 126 Notes 131 Bibliography 159 Index 175ReviewsChuh provides a lucid, polemical, and extraordinarily persuasive proposal for reconceiving the humanities.... It is difficult to come away from The Difference Aesthetics Makes without feeling that it makes an exceptional contribution to cultural studies in particular and to the humanities at large. -- Kiron Ward * Journal of American Studies * Author InformationKandice Chuh is Professor of English and American Studies at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, author of Imagine Otherwise: On Asian Americanist Critique, and coeditor of Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora, both also published by Duke University Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |