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Globalization and the Humanities

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This is the most comprehensive collection to date on how economic globalization transforms contemporary humanistic inquiries on matters of fundamental cultural and political significance. Against t...
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This is the most comprehensive collection to date on how economic globalization transforms contemporary humanistic inquiries on matters of fundamental cultural and political significance. Against the tyranny of the worldwide free market that naturalizes the aggregation of power for the increasingly few, the contributors to this volume at once advocate an egalitarian model of global distributive justice and cultivate a cosmopolitan communal consciousness. Writing from their diverse specialties and theoretical perspectives, the group of scholars assembled here has made the humanities a productive forum to articulate an alternative form of globalization based on universal human rights. As such, this collaborative effort counters the hegemony of neoliberal privatization and holds the promise of intellectual agency for an equitable reproduction of cultural capital in the global era.

Globalization and the Humanities will be of great use for scholars and students interested in the intellectual and ideological developments of the humanities in the past three decades. It clearly anchors the debates on the canon, the inclusion of third world and minority authors, of popular cultural genres and new media forms in an emerging globalization paradigm. The anthology will prove essential for students of undergraduate and graduate levels as well for scholars in the academy.
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Price: £40.00
Pages: 360
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Imprint: Hong Kong University Press
Publication Date: 01 December 2003
Trim Size: 9.26 X 6.38 in
ISBN: 9789622096530
Format: Hardcover
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"How can the humanities position itself as a political project in an era of globalization? Celebrations of difference, obsessions with subjectivity, and interdisciplinary hybridity seem no longer adequate to the task of assessing the present. In this time