The Difference Aesthetics Makes: On the Humanities After Man Chuh Kandice
The Difference Aesthetics Makes: On the Humanities After Man Chuh Kandice In The Difference Aesthetics Makes cultural critic Kandice Chuh asks what the humanities might be and do if organized around…
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The Difference Aesthetics Makes: On the Humanities After Man Chuh Kandice
In The Difference Aesthetics Makes cultural critic Kandice Chuh asks what the humanities might be and do if organized around what she calls "illiberal humanism" instead of around the Western European tradition of liberal humanism that undergirds the humanities in their received form. Chuh proposes that the work of artists and writers like Lan Samantha Chang, Carrie Mae Weems, Langston Hughes, Leslie Marmon Silko, Allan deSouza, Monique Truong, and others brings to bear ways of being and knowing that delegitimize liberal humanism in favor of more robust, capacious, and worldly senses of the human and the Recognizing that the liberal humanities contribute to the reproduction of the subjugation that accompanies liberalism's definition of the human, Chuh argues that instead of defending the humanities, as has been widely called for in recent years, we should radically remake them.