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The future without a past : the humanities in a technological society
- Title
- The future without a past : the humanities in a technological society / John Paul Russo.
- Author
- Russo, John Paul.
- Publication
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2005.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 05-7416 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- x, 313 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "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.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-298)and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 05-7416
- ISBN
- 0826215866 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005002031
- OCLC
- 57557408
- Author
- Russo, John Paul.
- Title
- The future without a past : the humanities in a technological society / John Paul Russo.
- Imprint
- Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2005.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-298)and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 05-7416