num_pages: 208
description: The essays in this collection focus on the essentially moral desire within humanistic inquiry to seek a point of contact between personal experience and intellectual reflection. The book is concerned with the development of a plural vocabulary of transformation that stems from the language of historians, philosophers, feminists, and aestheticians. It delineates a significant and widespread change in intellectual perspective that resists homogenizing the objects of study to abstract conceptual models and structures. What emerges from this volume are personal, responsible, situated languages that engage intellectuals after the waves of abstract theory of the past twenty years. ContentsChristie McDonald and Gary Wihl/PrefaceNancy F. Partner/History Without Empiricism/Truth Without FactsJudith Schlanger/How Old Is Our Cultural Past?Isabelle Stengers/The Humor of the PresentNancy Austin/Naming the Leisure Travel and the Demise of the SalonKarsten Harries/Beauty, Language, and Notes Toward a Critique of Aesthetics--With Special Reference to ArchitectureMary Ann Caws/Making For a Poetry of ArchitectureCharles Altieri/Intentionality Without Wittgenstein and the Dynamics of Subjective AgencyJacques Schlanger/Changing One's BeliefsRosi Braidotti/Theories of GenderSarah Westphal/Stories of GenderMary Bittner Wiseman/Three Renaissance Freud and the Feminine
language: English
title: Transformations in Personhood and Culture after Theory: The Languages of History, Aesthetics, and Ethics
titlecomplete: Transformations in Personhood and Culture after Theory: The Languages of History, Aesthetics, and Ethics (Literature and Philosophy)
ratings_count: 2
series: Literature and Philosophy
publisher: Penn State University Press