{"product_id":"humanities-theory-paperback","title":"Humanities Theory - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmanda Anderson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSimon During\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHumanities Theory\u003c\/em\u003e pioneers a new topic: the theory of the humanities. It is an urgent topic right now because the humanities face a suite of forceful new challenges and are in a period of significant change. For these reasons, it has become important to analyse and understand what the humanities are as a whole, beyond disciplinary divisions and yet without resorting to simplistic notions of their worth. Remarkably little attention has been paid to this topic. Most discussions of the humanities have been polemical if not defensive. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book argues that there exists a global humanities world which not only transcends disciplinary divisions but joins the professional academic humanities to a thriving amateur public humanities. This world has no essence, it is plural. Nevertheless, powerful, if contested, ethical orientations run through it and help shape it, including a will to truthfulness, a will to openness and generosity, a will to examine values. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn their essays Simon During and Amanda Anderson each bring different emphases to their shared orientation towards a large plural humanities world: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDuring \u003c\/strong\u003eanalyses how key disciplines--sociology, philosophy and history--might be used to think about the humanities as a whole and, on this basis, offers some predictions of the future awaiting the humanities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnderson \u003c\/strong\u003eanalyzes media representations of the humanities and considers the general conceptual frameworks through which the humanities focus on value and proffer critique. She analyses a series of examples of contemporary critical engagements in the humanities to press a case for value pluralism in the humanities and the university more broadly.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmanda Anderson, \u003cem\u003eAndrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and English and Director, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University\u003c\/em\u003e, Simon During, \u003cem\u003eProfessorial Fellow, University of Melbourne\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmanda Anderson is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English and Humanities and Director of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University. She is the author, most recently, of \u003cem\u003ePsyche and Ethos: Moral Life after Psychology\u003c\/em\u003e (Oxford, 2018) and \u003cem\u003eBleak Liberalism\u003c\/em\u003e (Chicago, 2016). She previously served as the Director of the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell and serves on the advisory board of the international Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSimon During, educated in New Zealand and at Cambridge, has taught at the University of Melbourne and Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of pioneering work in post-colonialism, cultural studies, and the history of entertainment but in recent years has concentrated on thinking about literature and the humanities under their difficult contemporary conditions.\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.33 x 8.54 x 5.54 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 07, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51984094527789,"sku":"9780198918783","price":39.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/Q0QMRrQYHS9780198918783.webp?v=1776081898","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/humanities-theory-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}