{"product_id":"the-difference-aesthetics-makes-9781478000921","title":"The Difference Aesthetics Makes","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Difference Aesthetics Makes\u003c\/i\u003e 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 othersbringsto 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Chuh provides a lucid, polemical, and extraordinarily persuasive proposal for reconceiving the humanities.... It is difficult to come away from \u003ci\u003eThe Difference Aesthetics Makes\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *\u003cbr\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eThe Difference Aesthetics Makes\u003c\/i\u003e, Kandice Chuh provides a fresh answer to an old question: What if losing the humanities as many have known them does not constitute a crisis? What if, after all, this so-called crisis affords an opportunity for the humanities to be remade?” -- Michele Speitz * Journal Of British Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. The Difference Aesthetics Makes  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Knowledge under Cover  26\u003cbr\u003e 2. Pedagogies of Liberal Humanism  51\u003cbr\u003e 3. Making Sense Otherwise  74\u003cbr\u003e 4. Mis\/Taken Universals  89\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. On the Humanities \"After Man\"  122\u003cbr\u003e Postscript  126\u003cbr\u003e Notes  131\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  159\u003cbr\u003e Index  175\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408969605463,"sku":"9781478000921","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478000921.jpg?v=1730504906","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-difference-aesthetics-makes-9781478000921","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}