Henry Sussman

The Great Dismissal (eBook, PDF)

Memoir of the Cultural Demolition Derby, 2015-22

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Veteran scholar and critic Henry Sussman deploys anecdote, reportage, and memoir to lament and scrutinize the rise of anti-intellectualism in the past few decades. How are we to reckon with the decline of impartiality and sharp increase in self-interested interference in politic, legal, and cultural spheres; the normalization of pathological narcissism in public life; and the blanket dismissal of scientific findings and their counterparts in the humanities and social sciences?

In retracing his own intellectual and experiential steps, Sussman revisits many of his lasting inspirations, including Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Immanuel Kant, and J. Hillis Miller. The result is an intellectual meditation on 'the great dismissal,' in public and political life, of venerable and vital humanistic traditions, ethics, and ways of thinking.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501392313
• Artikelnr.: 66293271

Autorenporträt

Henry Sussman retired in 2017 as Professor of Germanic Languages and Literature at Yale University, USA, after a 45-year teaching career. He is the author of 11 books, including Around the Book (2011), The Aesthetic Contract (2007), Psyche and Text: The Sublime and the Grandiose in Literature, Psychopathology and Culture (1993), and High Resolution: Critical Theory and the Problem of Literacy (1989). He has edited five volumes, including Acts of Narrative, co-edited with Carol Jacobs (2003). He is the founder and co-editor of the curated, theory-driven weblog, Feedback (www.openhumanitiespress.org/feedback). Professor Sussman is currently Visiting Professor of German at Rutgers University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. November 18
2020. Postal. 2. October 6
2020. Apocalypse red
apocalypse blue. 3. December 12
2020. Confederacy of zombies. 4. October 18
2019. Protests
curtailment of bus service
Queens. 5. June 7
2020. Atlas of vanished places. 6. February 10
2021. Requiem to disinterest. 7. January 27
2020. New feudal lords. 8. Thanksgiving
2021. Partisans of writing: Mayer with Derrida 9. April 1
2018. Welcome to the Great Dismissal! 10. August 15
2020. Co-lateral dommages. 11. December
31
2020. What on earth to do with the bodies? 12. August 30
2018. Midterm enigmas for progressives. 13. December 15
2021. Partisans of writing. Tobin Smith. 14. January 19
2021. Politics of entertainment 15. May 24
2020. Sikhs and other cabbies. 16. November 15
2020. Electronic ticks and leaden bubbles. 17. June 13
2019. Three deer in a development near Harrisburg
PA. 18. Labor Day
2021. Partisans of writing. Shoshanah Zuboff. 19. March 15
2022. Partisans of writing. Adam Serwer. 20. February 14
2022. University of the street. 21. May 15
2022. This Thing that dwells within us. 22. June 27
2022. Dismissal day: The strange loop of identity politics. 23. January 23
2023. I was there.