Culture after Humanism: History, Culture, Subjectivity (Comedia)
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Book Description
Culture After Humanism asks what happens to the authority of traditional Western modes of thought in the wake of postcolonial theory. Iain Chambers investigates moments of tension, interruptions which transform our perception of the world and test the limits of language, art and technology.
In a series of interlinked discussions, ranging in focus from Susan Sontag's novelThe Volcano Lover to the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Jimi Hendrix and Baroque architecture and music, Chambers weaves together a critique of Western humanism, exploring issues of colonization and migration, language and identity. Culture After Humanism offers a new approach to cultural history, a 'post-humanist' perspective which challenges our sense of a world in which the subject is sovereign language, the transparent medium of its agency, and truth, the product of reason.
About the Author
Iain Chambers is a professor in the faculty of Arts at the Istituto Universitario Orientale in Naples. He is the author of Popular Culture: The Metropolitan Experience, Migrancy, Culture, Identity and co-editor of The Postcolonial Question all published by Routledge.
Culture after Humanism: History, Culture, Subjectivity (Comedia),IAIN CHAMBERS,Routledge,041524756X,Archaeology,Folklore & Mythology,History & Surveys - Modern,Social Science,Sociology,Sociology - General,Cultural studies,Literary studies: from c 1900 -,Music,Theory of architecture,Urban & municipal planning,Western philosophy, from c 1900 -
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