Liberations: New Essays on the Humanities in RevolutionWesleyan University Press, 1971 - 216 Seiten “For more than a century now, the Humanities have suffered from a certain piety which even Revolution does not escape. True liberations engage some deeper energy, quiddity, or humor of life; and this is what the present authors, I think, wish to engage. “Our time is the time we have; we are always in the middle of things. Is Yeats, among so many moderns, right about a Second Coming? The center may hold forever or break down tomorrow; but we need to experience ourselves in images, and Apocalypse has become a figure of our speech. In the Humanities, in America, in the World, every crisis implicates itself in the first and last things. Ecology and technology, politics and economics, our common sanity, tell us that the end is truly possible though it may not be near. “Let us give Apocalypse a rest. We do not need it to tell us that our ways must mend, or that our business suffers from daily outrages. Pickup an issue of Time, Daedalus or College English; purchase the latest radical reader or anti-text. The discomforts of the academy are already too much in the public eye. Yet how many see, I wonder, that we now strike past the college administrator and campus guard, past the curriculum, past scholarship itself, at an older idea of man? The famous drawing of Leonardo, arms spread and legs apart, giving the human measure to circle, square, and universe, no longer takes our breath away. A post-humanism is in the making. What will be its shape? ’Thus Ihab Hassan introduces this volume in which twelve imaginative and independent artists and thinkers forthrightly present their views on aspects of humanism liberated from its historical pieties and moving, often violently, through several dimensions to find a new form. Many readers will bridle at some of the statements, for these essays are controversial; but whatever anyone may think of them, they constitute a book that is unquestionably challenging and altogether stimulating.”-Publisher |
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Make Matters Worse Continued 1969 Part | 3 |
Art Without Artists | 70 |
Revolution The Role of the Elders | 87 |
Urheberrecht | |
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