Remapping the Humanities: Identity, Community, Memory, (Post)Modernity [With CD]

ISBN-13: 9780814333693 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 276 str.

Mary Garrett

Opis

Remapping the Humanities celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Wayne State University Humanities Center by bringing together essays that illustrate the richness of public conversations developed in interdisciplinary humanities centers. The contributors to this collection represent more than a dozen disciplines - including philosophy, English, political science, history, law, comparative literature, and Spanish - and, taken together, their essays illustrate an ongoing remapping of the intellectual landscape as scholars from across university departments engage one another in unpredictable ways. They also tackle topics as varied as the formation of the modern family in France and the inculcation of civic virtue in American cities, and they draw freely from different sources of evidence like newspaper accounts, popular literature, paintings,