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03099aam a2200361 i 4500 001 ADABC656CF3111EB9A1890BA3BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210617010040 008 200903s2021 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020039956 020 $a 0231188374 020 $a 9780231188371 020 $a 0231188366 020 $a 9780231188364 035 $a (OCoLC)1196822039 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a B2430.F724 $b C495 2021 082 00 $a 194 $2 23 100 1 $a Chow, Rey, $e author. 245 12 $a A face drawn in sand : $b humanistic inquiry and Foucault in the present / $c Rey Chow. 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a 222 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "At its proper and most radical, humanistic inquiry is about problems that do not have ready solutions. If this fundamental feature had been accepted, debates about the humanities in recent years might have taken a different kind of turn, whereby, instead of appending new and ever more purposeful modifiers to the word humanities--the digital, the environmental, the neuro, the medical, the public--the ways in which humanistic modes of intellectual labor operate could have assumed a more central focus. This would not have to mean adopting a conservative or conservatively disciplinary stance toward the humanities. Rather, it would demonstrate the ways in which humanistic inquiry approaches intellectual problems conceptually, methodologically, and practically, without necessarily seeking to legitimize the relevance of its undertakings by way of social utility and consensus.This possibility of reimagining humanistic study is the basic assumption and orientation of this book. Many books make use of Foucault's theories, but few use his work to reflect on the conundrums, dead ends, and potentialities of humanistic inquiry in the current Western academy. By juxtaposing debates about literary study, visibilities and invisibilities, sound/voice/listening, race/racism, and self- governance/entrepreneurship in a unique constellation against what Chow polemicizes as the moral instrumentalization of knowledge, A Face Drawn in Sand is intended as an intervention in some of the most pressing issues facing humanistic study today: how to process and analyze texts; how to form and sustain arguments; how to reconceptualize familiar problems through lesser known as well as very well known sources. Above all, how not to have the answers before the questions"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Foucault, Michel, $d 1926-1984. 600 17 $a Foucault, Michel, $d 1926-1984. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01427415 650 0 $a Humanism. 650 7 $a Humanism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00963520 776 08 $i Online version: $a Chow, Rey, $t A face drawn in sand $d New York : Columbia University Press, 2021. $z 9780231547796 $w (DLC) 2020039957 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317023130.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=ADABC656CF3111EB9A1890BA3BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search