| Description |
478 pages |
| Contents |
What Do the Humanities Do? -- An Ecology of Institutions: Recomposing the Humanities / Stephen Muecke -- From ANT to Pragmatism: A Journey with Bruno Latour at the CSI / Antoine Hennion -- "Demodernizing the Humanities with Latour" / Graham Harman -- "Care, Concern, and the Ethics of Description" / Heather Love -- "Redistributing Critique" / Anders Blok and Casper Bruun Jensen -- "Decomposing the Humanities" / Steven Connor -- "Humanities in the Anthropocene" / Dipesh Chakrabarty -- "Fictional Attachments and Literary Weavings in the Anthropocene" / Yves Citton -- "Are the Humanities Modern?" / Simon During -- "The University of Life" / Nigel Thrift -- Latour and the Disciplines -- "Critique, Modernity, Society, Agency: Matters of Concern in Literary Studies" / David Alworth -- "Cinematic Assemblies: Latour and Film Studies" / Claudia Breger -- "Latour, the Digital Humanities, and the Divided Kingdom of Knowledge" / Michael Witmore -- "Anthropotheology: Latour Speaking Religiously" / Barbara Herrnstein Smith -- Politics is a "Mode of Existence": Why Political Theorists Should Leave Hobbes for Montesquieu / Gerard de Vries -- "Art as Fiction: Can Latour's Ontology of Art Be Ratified by Art Lovers?" / Patrice Maniglier -- "Actor-Network Aesthetics" / Francis Halsall -- Afterword Bruno Latour, Life among Conceptual Characters |
| Summary |
"This edited collection connects Bruno Latour's work in the sciences to the humanities. The contributors defend the humanities without drawing the traditional distinction between hard and soft disciplines. The book derives from a 2016 special issue of New Literary History and features a group of highly distinguished scholars."-- |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Latour, Bruno -- Influence
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Humanities -- Philosophy
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Actor-network theory
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| Author |
Felski, Rita, 1956-, editor
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Muecke, Stephen, 1951-, editor
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| LC no. |
2019057452 |
| ISBN |
9781421439211 |
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9781421438900 |
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