TY - BOOK AU - Aldama,Frederick Luis ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Why the humanities matter: a commonsense approach AV - B831.2 .A43 2008eb U1 - 001.3 22 PY - 2008/// CY - Austin PB - University of Texas Press KW - Postmodernism KW - Philosophy, Modern KW - 20th century KW - 21st century KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-348) and index; Introduction: a new humanism -- Self, identity, and ideas -- Revisiting Derrida, Lacan, and Foucault -- Derrida gets medieval -- Imaginary empires, real nations -- Edward Said spaced out -- Modernity, what? -- Teachers, scholars, and the humanities today -- Translation matters -- Can music resist? -- The "cultural studies turn" in Brown studies -- Pulling up stakes in Latin/o American theoretical claims -- Fugitive thoughts on justice and happiness -- Why literature matters -- Interpretation, interdisciplinarity, and the people; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10273652 ER -