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1 Online-Ressource (222 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9780231547796
Content:
Leadership, innovation, diversity, inclusiveness, sharing, accountability-such is the resounding administrative refrain we keep hearing in the contemporary Western university. What kinds of benefits does this refrain generate? For whom? What discursive incitements undergird such benefits? Although there are innumerable discussions of Michel Foucault in the English-speaking academy, seldom is his work used systematically to unravel the dead ends and potentialities of humanistic inquiry as embedded in these simple but dynamic questions.Rey Chow takes up this challenge by articulating the plight of the humanities in the age of global finance and neoliberal mores through a resharpened focus on Foucault's concept "outside." This general discussion is followed by a series of micro-arguments about several loosely linked topics: the biopolitics of literary study, visibilities and invisibilities, race and racism, sound/voice/listening, and confession and self-entrepreneurship. Against what she polemicizes as the moralistic-entrepreneurial norming of knowledge production, Chow foregrounds a nonutilitarian approach, stressing anew the intellectual and pedagogical objectives fundamental to humanistic inquiry: How to process, analyze, and evaluate different types of texts across languages and disciplines; how to form and sustain viable arguments; how to rethink familiar problems through less known as well as very well-known sources, figures, and methods. Above all, she asks in an abidingly humanistic spirit, how not to know all the answers before the questions have been posed
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-0-231-18836-4
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 978-0-231-18837-1
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
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Sociology
Keywords:
Foucault, Michel 1926-1984
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Geisteswissenschaften
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Humanismus
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Bildungsideal
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Erziehungsphilosophie
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Author information:
Chow, Rey 1957-
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