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Resilience and the Humanities: Critique and Testing

Resilience and the Humanities: Critique and Testing

Hart, Stephen M.
Gatica Mizala, Camila
Lema Habash, Nicolas

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PhilosophyEnvironmental Studies

PREORDER - Expected ship date September 29, 2026

ISBN10: 1648251854
ISBN13: 9781648251856
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: Sep 29 2026
Pages: 350
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Explores the concept of 'resilience' by proposing that it is a contested idea, susceptible to criticism, and not a predetermined notion whose consequences are fixed.

Resilience is all around us. It is a buzzword across such disparate domains as engineering, moral psychology, coaching, self-help, and military strategy. The word has varied meaning across these fields, but all definitions share the idea that it denotes the protection and maintenance of particular environments through adaptation to the changes or disruptions these might undergo. The apparently obvious meaning of resilience and its normative consequences are the result of a series of intellectual, social, and epistemic processes. Resilience and the Humanities: Critique and Testing proposes that, regardless of its ubiquity, resilience is a concept that cannot be accepted without interrogating and testing its value, thereby contesting and critiquing it.

This edited volume explores the possibilities and shortcomings of the concept through philosophy, literature, history, and film studies in fifteen chapters that seek to understand the promises and limitations of resilience using different case studies. The authors discuss the way the concept fills a discourse with ideas that have consequences upon subjects and bodies on a social, cultural, and political level.

An overall view of these different approaches to resilience allows this collection to establish the multivocal nature of the concept when used in different disciplines. Put simply, there are multiple ways in which the concept of resilience can be applied across the humanities.

Funded by the Humanities Center at the University of Rochester, NY.

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