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" The future without a past : "
John Paul Russo
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BL
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700107
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b522296
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Russo, John Paul
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| Title & Author
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The future without a past : : the humanities in a technological society /\ John Paul Russo
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| Publication Statement
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Columbia :: University of Missouri Press,, c2005
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x, 313 p. ;; 25 cm
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0826215866
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-298) and index
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| Contents
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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
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| Abstract
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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
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Humanities-- Philosophy
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Humanities-- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Learning and scholarship-- History
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Science and the humanities
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Technology and civilization
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AZ103.R87 2005
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