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The Future Without A Past : The Humanities In A Technological Society

  • The Future Without A Past : The Humanities In A Technological Society

  • Attribution

    John Paul Russo

  • Publication Details

    Book, University of Missouri Press, 2005

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  AZ103 .R87 2005  AVAILABLE

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    • "Argues that technological imperatives like rationalization, universalism, monism, and autonomy have transformed the humanities and altered the relation between humans and nature. Examines technology and its impact on education, historical memory, and technological and literary values in criticism and theory, concluding with an analysis of the fiction of Don DeLillo"–Provided by publisher

  • Contents

    • The future of the humanities in a technological society
    • The great forgetting : library, media center, and Las Vegas
    • The circle of knowledge : science and the humanistic curriculum from Petrarch to Trilling
    • Belief and sincerity
    • The tranquilized poem : the crisis of the new criticism
    • The disappearance of the self : contemporary theories of autobiography
    • Don Delillo : ethnicity, religion, and the critique of technology

  • ISBN

    • 0826215866

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