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Humanities Theory

Humanities Theory

Anderson, Amanda
During, Simon

Hardcover

Series: Literature and Politics

Letters & EssaysLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 0198918771
ISBN13: 9780198918776
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jan 7 2026
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.86 Depth: 8.63
Language: English
Humanities Theory 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.

This 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.

In their essays Simon During and Amanda Anderson each bring different emphases to their shared orientation towards a large plural humanities world:

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