The Edinburgh Companion to the New European Humanities - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 139950519X ISBN 13: 9781399505192

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2024

Synopsis

This is the first collection that highlights the strengths and contributions of the Humanities, in the European region. The volume stresses the positive and multidimensional impact of the Humanities on core areas of human experience, and their ability to formulate new frames to represent our collective and individual relation to the world. Further, it explores new ethical social imaginaries, gendered scenarios and spaces of decolonial transculturality. This collection also confronts the threats the Humanities face today and proposes ways to respond. These threats include public discourses that question the value of the Humanities; the chronic underfunding of teaching and research at our universities and institutions, and the more fundamental risks to intellectual freedom, democracy and critical discourse, diversity, and the radical imagination posed by political and market forces and organisations. Overall, this volume proposes innovative tools to increase our collective awareness of forms of injustice, exclusion and the suffering of both the human and the non-human inhabitants of this planet. It discusses the posthuman future of the Humanities and makes recommendations for the implementation of innovative approaches to the Humanities.

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About the Authors

Rosi Braidotti is a Distinguished University Professor Emerita at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and Honorary Professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. She is a feminist Continental philosopher and she holds degrees in philosophy from the ANU and the Sorbonne and Honorary Degrees from Helsinki, (2007) and Linkoping (2013). She is an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) and also a Member of the Academia Europaea. In 2022 she received the Humboldt Research Award for life-long contribution to scholarship. Her publications include: Nomadic Subjects (2011), and Nomadic Theory (2011); The Posthuman (2013), Posthuman Knowledge (2019); Posthuman Feminism (2022); The Posthuman Glossary (2018) and More Posthuman Glossary (2022).

Hiltraud Casper-Hehne is Professor of Intercultural German Studies/Language Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Göttingen. She initiated the project "Interculture" within the framework of the EU university programme Asia-Link between Europe and China. She was Vice-President for International Affairs at the University of Göttingen, a member of the Board of the HERA network and a member of the Executive Board of the Coimbra Group. She also chaired the Council of Experts for the Development of a China Strategy of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Since 2018, she has been a member of the EU-Ad- hoc Expert Group on European Universities.

Marjan Ivković is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Belgrade, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory.

Daan F. Oostveen is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Culture Inquiry and Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University, Netherlands. He studied philosophy and comparative literature at Ghent University. His PhD from the Faculty of Religion and Theology of VU Amsterdam is on multiple religious belonging. In 2018, he undertook research at the Renmin University of China in Beijing, where he studied Chinese religious diversity. His research interests include comparative religion, posthuman philosophy, and the new humanities.

From the Back Cover

This interdisciplinary reference work is a substantive contribution to the contemporary humanities and offers a navigational tool to reflect the value and relevance of the humanities to knowledge and society, with a special focus on the European region at large. The future-oriented approach of the contributors highlights the positive and multidimensional impact of the humanities on core areas of human experience. New ethical social imaginaries, gendered scenarios and spaces of decolonial transculturality are explored. They propose innovative tools to increase collective awareness of forms of injustice, exclusion, and the suffering of both the human and the non-human inhabitants of this planet. The result is a comprehensive overview of the way in which the humanities is currently transforming from the inside while responding to major political challenges of the 21st century. Key features: - Offers a timely map of important trends written by internationally grounded experts - Presents emerging key sub-areas of the humanities including digital humanities, intercultural humanities, environmental humanities and medical humanities - Combines theoretical speculation with policy-making pragmatism - Critically questions the implicit foundation of the humanities, asking if the notion of 'the human' and their claims to universality are too narrow and in need of rethinking. Rosi Braidotti is Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Hiltraud Casper-Hehne, is Professor of Intercultural German Studies/Language Studies in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Göttingen, Germany. Daan F. Oostveen is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Culture Inquiry and Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Marjan Ivkovic is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 139950519X
• ISBN 13: 9781399505192
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 448
• Editor: Braidotti Rosi, Casper-Hehne Hiltraud, Ivković Marjan, Oostveen Daan F.