Humanities, Provocateur: Towards a Contemporary Political Aesthetics by Brinda Bose
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Overview: This highly original collection is a far cry from the demand on the literary humanities to offer the soothing hum of theory to a world of breaks, crises and pain. Instead, it exemplifies a way ahead for the critical humanities….
-Arjun Appadurai, New York University
‘Doing the Humanities’ comes to life in this passionate, provocative set of experiments in descriptive poetics. Failure, fantasy, freefall are reconceived as forms of aesthetic achievement across the creative arts.…
-Ros Ballaster, University of Oxford
….This timely volume inspires a collective undertaking to learn ‘to do’ the humanities through the untimeliness of a work of art. A humanities that remains attentive to this form of techné will prove indispensable to remaking the world in the aftermath of a pandemic.
-Premesh Lalu, University of the Western Cape
Genre: Non-Fiction > Educational
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