Rey Chow (Duke University)

A Face Drawn in Sand

Humanistic Inquiry and Foucault in the Present

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Produktbeschreibung

Rey Chow rearticulates the plight of the humanities in the age of global finance and neoliberal mores through a focus on Foucaultà â â s concept à â Å outside.à â  She foregrounds a nonutilitarian approach, stressing anew the intellectual and pedagogical objectives fundamental to humanistic inquiry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 153mm x 228mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 344g
• ISBN-13: 9780231188371
• ISBN-10: 0231188374
• Artikelnr.: 60402157

Autorenporträt

Rey Chow is Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Duke University. She is the author of Entanglements, or Transmedial Thinking About Capture (2012) and Not Like a Native Speaker: On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience (Columbia, 2014), among other works, and the coeditor of Sound Objects (2019).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Humanistic Inquiry in the Era of the Moralist-Entrepreneur
Introduction: Rearticulating "Outside"
Part II. Exercises in the Unthought
1. Literary Study's Biopolitics
2. "There Is a 'There Is' of Light"; or, Foucault's (In)visibilities
3. Thinking "Race" with Foucault
4. "Fragments at Once Random and Necessary": The Énoncé Revisited,
Alongside Acousmatic Listening
5. From the Confessing Animal to the Smartself
Coda: Intimations from a Series of Faces Drawn in Sand
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index