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Claim Of Language: A Case For The Humanities
Fynsk (comparative literature and philosophy, Binghampton U.) defends the claim that it is possible to speak of research that is specifically of the humanities, focusing on the conditions of fundamental research. He offers a set of possible paths, without claiming that they are the only ones possible, in order to identify important questions that o
128 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2004
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February 22, 2025
What is most surprising about this work is that it has already been twenty-one years since its publication! And what has occurred regarding the "case" of the Humanities? Nothing but further degradation, this extenuated dying of an aspect of the university already dead...
And yet, Fynsk's text remains as timely today as it may have been in 2004. The exigencies which he foregrounds remain, in seems to me, just as pressing as they were then, if not more so (if not being even further from the actuality - let alone the possibility - of teaching within the university today; one is less and less surprised by Fynsk's transition to the EGS...). Especially striking is the essay, republished in this volume, on Gérard Granel's De l'université (such an untimely text, yet marking a past to be retaken and thought as a means for the future...). One might take up this volume (again? for the first time?) in response to the question which the Humanities still bear - far from an apologia - but how to do this when one is already rejected by an institution which considers you without value, dead before even being able to speak?
And yet, Fynsk's text remains as timely today as it may have been in 2004. The exigencies which he foregrounds remain, in seems to me, just as pressing as they were then, if not more so (if not being even further from the actuality - let alone the possibility - of teaching within the university today; one is less and less surprised by Fynsk's transition to the EGS...). Especially striking is the essay, republished in this volume, on Gérard Granel's De l'université (such an untimely text, yet marking a past to be retaken and thought as a means for the future...). One might take up this volume (again? for the first time?) in response to the question which the Humanities still bear - far from an apologia - but how to do this when one is already rejected by an institution which considers you without value, dead before even being able to speak?
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