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Presidential Address 2004: The Humanities in a Posthumanist World

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Robert Scholes
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Are we in a posthumanist world? who knows? clever thinkers from Nietzsche and Henry Adams to Foucault and Lyotard have been giving us this message. And if we are in such a world, how can there be a place for the humanities in it? Plodding along behind those brilliant minds, I shall try to puzzle out the situation of the humanities at a practical or pedagogical level, by looking at what some humanists have been saying about the humanities recently and then considering briefly the history of humanism and humanistic education. After that, I shall make some modest proposals about what is to be done.

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Research Article
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PMLA , Volume 120 , Issue 3 , May 2005 , pp. 724 - 733
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2005

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