The Crisis in the Humanities: Transdisciplinary Solutions

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This volume will appeal to the reader interested in the so-called long crisis in the humanities and transdisciplinary approaches as a possible way out of this. It comprises a selection of 23 essays by both established and young scholars from the United States, Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia, coming from a variety of disciplines, including aesthetics, anthropology, architecture, art, critical theory, ethnography, feminism, film studies, gender and queer theory, literary theory, Marxism, musicology, philosophy, and sociology, among others. What brings all these together here is the intention to advance transdisciplinarity, both in theory and in practice, in their scholarly work, as a possible solution to this purported crisis, the subject of heated debate in academia since the 1960s, revolving around the crisis of the subject and the humanities positioning as a field of research. The book examines the place of the humanities in contemporary society, and challenges the ways that issues that form the foci of various disciplines have been addressed in recent theoretical discourses. It reflects on the status of the disciplines in the humanities, and explores the links between history, culture, media, and art. Table of Contents Introduction Part I - General Discussions Censoring Emotional Discourse The Crisis in Musicology Toward a Critique of the Philosophy of the Event From Literary to Visual Culture and Aesthetics Necropolitics and Global Capitalism Toward a Marxist Aesthetics The Aesthetic Dimension Art in the Context of Crisis Contemporary Aesthetics of Architecture A New School in the Gray Zones of Crisis Musicology and the Measure of Transdisciplinarity Part II - Specific Issues Beyond the Crisis of the Avant-garde in Music Discursive Construction of the Body and the Bodily Potential for Creating New Narratives Overcoming the Traditional Humanities Globalisation and World Literature Between Utopia and Activism Knowledge and its Stability in and out of Academia Part III - Artists, Audiences, and the Crisis in Contemporary Art and Media Disagency Aesthetics and Machine Learning Sound Art as a Transdisciplinary Practice The Playful Face of the Performing Object Live or Living Dead Bio Art from the Other Europe Editors and Contributors Index of Names