Rhetorical Occasions Essays on Humans and the Humanities

A nationally known scholar, essayist, and public advocate for the humanities, Michael Berube has a rapier wit and a singular talent for parsing complex philosophical, theoretical, and political questions. Rhetorical Occasions collects twenty-four of his major essays and reviews, plus a sampling of e...

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Main Author:	Berube, Michael
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Published:	Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina Press 2006
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Subjects:	1955 Criticism Humanities Influence Learning and scholarship New Left Popular culture September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 Sokal, Alan D United States
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Abstract	A nationally known scholar, essayist, and public advocate for the humanities, Michael Berube has a rapier wit and a singular talent for parsing complex philosophical, theoretical, and political questions. Rhetorical Occasions collects twenty-four of his major essays and reviews, plus a sampling of entries on literary theory and contemporary culture from his award-winning weblog. Selected to showcase the range of public writing available to scholars, the essays are grouped into five topical sections: the Sokal hoax and its effects on the humanities; cosmopolitanism, American studies, and cultural studies; daily academic life inside and outside the classroom; the events of September 11, 2001, and their political aftermath; and the potential discursive and tonal range of academic blog writing. In lively and entertaining prose, Berube offers a wide array of interventions into matters academic and nonacademic. By example and illustration, he reminds readers that the humanities remain central to our understanding of what it means to be human.
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TableOfContents	Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: On Occasion -- Part One: Physics -- The Sokal Hoax for Beginners -- The Return of Realism and the Future of Contingency -- Of Fine Clothes and Naked Emperors -- The Utility of the Arts and Humanities -- Part Two: Positions -- There Is Nothing inside the Text -- or, Why No One's Heard of Wolfgang Iser -- Citizens of the World, Unite: Martha Nussbaum's Plan for Cultivating Humanity -- American Studies without Exceptions -- Idolatries of the Marketplace: Thomas Frank, Cultural Studies, and the Voice of the People -- Part Three: Professions -- Days of Future Past -- Teaching to the Six -- Working for the U: On the Rhetoric of "Affiliation" -- Dream a Little Dream -- Professing and Parenting -- Speaking of Speakers -- Universities Should Be Open for Business -- Analyze, Don't Summarize -- The Top 10 Contradictory Things about Popular Culture -- The Elvis Costello Problem -- Part Four: Politics -- The Lefts before 11 September -- Nation and Narration -- Can the Left Get Iraq Right? -- For a Better-and Broader-Antiwar Movement -- Fighting Liberals -- The Loyalties of American Studies -- Part Five: Posts -- Azkaban Blogging -- Back in Les États-Unis -- Vacation Reading II -- Republican National Convention, Second Night -- More Plans for Democrats in Distress -- The Beinart Effect -- Theory Tuesday II -- Theory Tuesday III -- Was I Ever Wrong -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
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