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University of California, Los Los Angeles Northwestern University.
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One of Us: The Mastery of Joseph Conrad by Geoffrey Galt Harpham (1997-02-15)
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Shadows of Ethics; Criticism and the Just Society by Geoffrey Galt Harpham (1999-05-07)
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The Character of Criticism
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First published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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The Ascetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism by Geoffrey Galt Harpham (1992-02-15)
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The Humanities and the Dream of America
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In this bracing and original book, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that today’s humanities are an invention of the American academy in the years following World War II, when they were first conceived as an expression of American culture and an instrument of American national interests. The humanities portray a “dream of America” in two senses: they represent an aspiration of Americans since the first days of the Republic for a state so secure and prosperous that people could enjoy and appreciate culture for its own sake; and they embody in academic terms an idealized conception of the American national character. Although they are struggling to retain their status in America, the concept of the humanities has spread to other parts of the world and remains one of America's most distinctive and valuable contributions to higher education. The Humanities and the Dream of America explores a number of linked problems that have emerged in recent years: the role, at once inspiring and disturbing, played by philology in the formation of the humanities; the reasons for the humanities’ perpetual state of “crisis”; the shaping role of philanthropy in the humanities; and the new possibilities for literary study offered by the subject of pleasure. Framed by essays that draw on Harpham’s pedagogical experiences abroad and as a lecturer at the U.S. Air Force Academy, as well as his vantage as director of the National Humanities Center, this book provides an essential perspective on the history, ideology, and future of this important topic.
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Shadows of Ethics; Criticism and the Just Society
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In this volume Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues for a deeply original view of the relations among ethics, literary study, and critical theory. In thirteen lucid, provocative and often witty essays, Harpham rejects both the optimism of those who see ethics as a way of solving problems about values or principles and the pessimism of those who regard ethics as primarily a cover story for politics. Ethics, he claims, has been seen by its most powerful theorists as a discourse of “shadows,” a characteristic disturbance of thought in the presence of the other, a source of doubts rather than certainty. At the same time, however, ethics includes an element of violence, even blindness and “fundamentalism,” a crushing drive to clarity and resolution. Contemporary thinkers, Harpham argues, have been unwilling to accept this account of ethics and the obligations it would impose, and have, as a consequence, cultivated social and intellectual marginality as the only site of virtue, the only position in which critical intelligence is at home. They have, he contends, failed to “imagine the center,” to take up the true intellectual and worldly challenge of ethics. Tracking these issues and energies in debates about enlightenment, the politics of the aesthetic, the nature of rationality, and the worldly contexts of theory, Harpham demonstrates in compelling detail the ubiquity and true difficulty of ethics. Shadows of Ethics also revives a neglected genre, the intellectual portrait, with extended meditations on Jacques Derrida, Martha Nussbaum, Fredric Jameson, Geoffrey Hartman, and Noam Chomsky. The book will interest literary critics, philosophers, cultural critics, and all those interested in the ethical character of intellectual work.
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One of Us: The Mastery of Joseph Conrad by Geoffrey Galt Harpham (1997-02-15)
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Language Alone: The Critical Fetish of Modernity by Geoffrey Galt Harpham (2002-09-08)
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Language Alone: The Critical Fetish of Modernity
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How did the concept of language come to dominate modern intellectual history? In Language Alone, Geoffrey Galt Harpham provides at once the most comprehensive survey and most telling critique of the pervasive role of language in modern thought. He shows how thinkers in such diverse fields as philosophy, psychoanalysis, anthropology, and literary theory have made progress by referring their most difficult theoretical problems to what they presumed were the facts of language. Through a provocative reassessment of major thinkers on the idea of language-Saussure, Wittgenstein, Derrida, Rorty, and Chomsky, among them-and detailed accounts of the discourses of ethics and ideology in particular, Harpham demonstrates a remarkable consensus among intellectuals of the past century and beyond that philosophical and other problems can best be understood as linguistic problems. And furthermore, that a science of language can therefore illuminate them. Conspicuously absent from this consensus, he shows, is any consideration of contemporary linguistics, or any awareness of the growing agreement among linguists that the nature of language as such cannot be known. Ultimately, Harpham argues, the thought of language has dominated modern intellectual history because of its singular capacity to serve as a proxy for a host of concerns, questions, and anxieties-our place in the order of things, our rights and obligations, our nature or essence-that resist a strictly rational formulation. Language Alone will interest literary critics, philosophers, and anyone with an interest in the uses of language in contemporary thought.
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The Humanities and the Dream of America by Geoffrey Harpham (2011-04-19)
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The Ascetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism
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In this bold interdisciplinary work, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that asceticism has played a major role in shaping Western ideas of the body, writing, ethics, and aesthetics. He suggests that we consider the ascetic as "the 'cultural' element in culture," and presents a close analysis of works by Athanasius, Augustine, Matthias, Grünewald, Nietzsche, Foucault, and other thinkers as proof of the extent of asceticism's resources. Harpham demonstrates the usefulness of his findings by deriving from asceticism a "discourse of resistance," a code of interpretation ultimately more generous and humane than those currently available to us.
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(The Humanities and the Dream of America) Author: Geoffrey Galt Harpham published on (April, 2011)
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The Humanities and the Dream of America by Geoffrey Galt Harpham (2011-03-01)
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Geoffrey Harpham
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One of the characteristics of his tenure was the encouragement of dialogue between the humanities on the one hand and the natural and social sciences on the other. His most recent book, The Humanities and the Dream of America, was published by the University of Chicago Press in March 2011.
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The Humanities and the Dream of America
( In this bracing and original book, Geoffrey Galt Harpha...)
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Language Alone: The Critical Fetish of Modernity
(How did the concept of language come to dominate modern i...)
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The Ascetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism
( In this bold interdisciplinary work, Geoffrey Galt Harp...)
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One of Us: The Mastery of Joseph Conrad
( The concept of mastery straddles a largely unexamined s...)
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Shadows of Ethics; Criticism and the Just Society
( In this volume Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues for a deepl...)
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The Character of Criticism
(First published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylo...)
- One of Us: The Mastery of Joseph Conrad by Geoffrey Galt Harpham (1997-02-15)
- Shadows of Ethics; Criticism and the Just Society by Geoffrey Galt Harpham (1999-05-07)
- The Ascetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism by Geoffrey Galt Harpham (1992-02-15)
- One of Us: The Mastery of Joseph Conrad by Geoffrey Galt Harpham (1997-02-15)
- Language Alone: The Critical Fetish of Modernity by Geoffrey Galt Harpham (2002-09-08)
- The Humanities and the Dream of America by Geoffrey Harpham (2011-04-19)
- (The Humanities and the Dream of America) Author: Geoffrey Galt Harpham published on (April, 2011)
- The Humanities and the Dream of America by Geoffrey Galt Harpham (2011-03-01)
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The Humanities and the Dream of America
Membership
He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University and also a Life Member of Clare Hall at the University of Cambridge. He is in addition a member of the Board of Visitors of Ralston College.
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