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The Great Dismissal

Name: The Great Dismissal
Author: Henry Sussman

Memoir of the Cultural Demolition Derby, 2015-22

Henry Sussman,

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The Great Dismissal

Memoir of the Cultural Demolition Derby, 2015-22

Henry Sussman,

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Veteran scholar and critic Henry Sussman deploys anecdote, reportage, and memoir to lament and scrutinize the rise of anti-intellectualism in the past few decades. How are we to reckon with the decline of impartiality and sharp increase in self-interested interference in politic, legal, and cultural spheres; the normalization of pathological narcissism in public life; and the blanket dismissal of scientific findings and their counterparts in the humanities and social sciences? In retracing his own intellectual and experiential steps, Sussman revisits many of his lasting inspirations, including Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Immanuel Kant, and J. Hillis Miller. The result is an intellectual meditation on 'the great dismissal, ' in public and political life, of venerable and vital humanistic traditions, ethics, and ways of thinking.

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Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Year

2022

ISBN

9781501392313

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Topic

Literature

Subtopic

Literary Criticism for Comparative Literature

Index

Literature

Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Figures
November 18, 2020. Postal
October 6, 2020. Apocalypse Red, Apocalypse Blue
December 12, 2020. Confederacy of Zombies
October 18, 2019. Protests, Curtailment of Bus Service, Queens
June 7, 2020. Atlas of Vanished Places
February 10, 2021. Requiem to Disinterest
January 27, 2020. New Feudal Lords
Chapter 8: Thanksgiving, 2021. Partisans of Writing: Mayer with Derrida
April 1, 2018. Welcome to the Great Dismissal!
August 15, 2020. Co-lateral Dommages
December 31, 2020. What on Earth to Do with the Bodies?
August 30, 2018. Midterm Enigmas for Progressives
December 8, 2021. Partisans of Writing. Tobin Smith
February 19, 2022. Politics of Entertainment
May 24, 2020. Sikhs and Other Cabbies
November 15, 2020. Electronic Ticks and Leaden Bubbles
June 13, 2019. Three Deer in a Development Near Harrisburg, PA
Labor Day, 2021. Partisans of Writing. Shoshanah Zuboff
March 15, 2022. Partisans of Writing. Adam Serwer
February 14, 2022. University of the Street
May 15, 2022. This Thing That Dwells within Us
June 27, 2022. Dismissal Day. The Strange Loop of Identity Politics
January 23, 2023. I Was There
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
INDEX