Description
Book SynopsisSelling the Humanities explores the challenges facing literature, philosophy, and theory at a time when the humanities appear to some as burnt out. There is incredible pressure to demonstrate the value of the humanities within institutions dedicated to economic feasibility and job placement, not intellectual power and social commitment. This situation is further intensified by the demand that one must always be prepared to sell the humanities to others in an effort to save them. But is it even possible to commodify the humanities? And if so, might our efforts to sell the humanities also have the potential to kill them in the process?
Table of Contents
- Happiness for Sale
- The Writer’s Journal
- Industrial Disease
- The Speed of Publishing
- Suspicious Minds
- The Town Book Building
- Dark Shadows
- The Self-Publishing Revolution
- Tumbleweed Connections
- Wax Power
- A Fig Leaf for Literature
- Fashionable Philosophy
- Dead Criticism
- Don’t Shoot the Journal Editor
- Does Philosophy Need a Story?
- Music contra Life
- Has Literature Run Out of Steam?
- The Blooming of American Literature
- Philosophy without Apologies
- Freethinkers and Heretics
- The Generous Professor
- Democracy and the Humanities
- This Humanities Which Is Not One
- The Humanities Toolbox
- Afterword by H. Aram Veeser
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Sources
