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Selling the Humanities explores the challenges facing literature, philosophy, and theory at a time when the humanities appear to some as burnt out. There is incredible pressure to demonstrate the value of the humanities within institutions dedicated to economic feasibility and job placement, not intellectual power and social commitment. This situation is further intensified by the demand that one must always be prepared to sell the humanities to others in an effort to save them. But is it even possible to commodify the humanities? And if so, might our efforts to sell the humanities also have the potential to kill them in the process?
Contents
Preface
Happiness for Sale
The Writer's Journal
Industrial Disease
The Speed of Publishing
Suspicious Minds
The Town Book Building
Dark Shadows
The Self-Publishing Revolution
Tumbleweed Connections
Wax Power
A Fig Leaf for Literature
Fashionable Philosophy
Dead Criticism
Don't Shoot the Journal Editor
Does Philosophy Need a Story?
Music contra Life
Has Literature Run Out of Steam?
The Blooming of American Literature
Philosophy without Apologies
Freethinkers and Heretics
The Generous Professor
Democracy and the Humanities
This Humanities Which Is Not One
The Humanities Toolbox
Afterword by H. Aram Veeser
Acknowledgements
Notes
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