Selling the humanities : essays / Jeffrey R. Di Leo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Di Leo, Jeffrey R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanities--Philosophy.

Humanities.

Humanities--Study and teaching (Higher).

Humanities--Economic aspects.

Humanities--History--21st century.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

215 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Huntsville, Texas : TRP: The University Press of SHSU, [2023]

Summary:

"Selling the Humanities explores the challenges facing literature, philosophy, and theory at a time when the humanities appear to some as burnt out. There is incredible pressure to demonstrate the value of the humanities within institutions dedicated to economic feasibility and job placement, not intellectual power and social commitment. This situation is further intensified by the demand that one must always be prepared to sell the humanities to others in an effort to save them. But is it even possible to commodify the humanities? And if so, might our efforts to sell the humanities also have the potential to kill them in the process?"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Happiness for Sale

The Writer's Journal

Industrial Disease

The Speed of Publishing

Suspicious Minds

The Town Book Building

Dark Shadows

The Self-Publishing Revolution

Tumbleweed Connections

Wax Power

A Fig Leaf for Literature

Fashionable Philosophy

Dead Criticism

Don't Shoot the Journal Editor

Does Philosophy Need a Story?

Music contra Life

Has Literature Run Out of Steam?

The Blooming of American Literature

Philosophy without Apologies

Freethinkers and Heretics

The Generous Professor

Democracy and the Humanities

This Humanities Which Is Not One

The Humanities Toolbox.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-215).

Other Format:

Online version: Di Leo, Jeffrey R. Selling the humanities

ISBN:

9781680033182

1680033182

OCLC:

1376000070

Publisher Number:

99995356951