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Top humanists of the last century
A theme that’s been coming up in my conversations recently (including when visiting UC Davis) is the question of the “humanities canon”: i.e., who are the theorists whose views have been most...
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Announcing a competition: Which scholars should be on the list of “Top humanists of the last century” but are not? The person who names the greatest number of such names by the end of the day (12...
View ArticleTop humanists: final results
Since most of us love lists — or at least love and hate them simultaneously – here is the updated version of the “Top humanities theorists of the last century” list. See the previous version for the...
View ArticleWhat we ask students to read…
Both Open Culture and The New York Times have reported on the Open Syllabus Project, which has tallied over a million college course syllabi to determine the 10,000 or so most commonly assigned texts....
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What are the humanities? (Two cultures, redux)
As a humanistic scholar within an interdisciplinary school, I’m often put in a position to distinguish how the humanities differ from the social and natural sciences. There is a long tradition of...
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Posthumanist redistributions of the sensible
Theory has a mobile army of metaphors that account for its own importance. The vanguardist notion of a “cutting edge” has long served as a paradigmatic metaphor for theoretical innovation, and it’s...
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