How to be an intellectual : essays on criticism, culture, and the university / / Jeffrey J. Williams

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786897503321
• Autore: Williams Jeffrey <1958->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 0-8232-6381-9; 0-8232-6643-5; 0-8232-6383-5; 0-8232-6384-3
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 216 pages)
• Classificazione: LIT006000EDU015000EDU040000
• Disciplina: 801/.950973
• Soggetti: Criticism - United States; Intellectuals - United States; Literature - Study and teaching (Higher) - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Introduction -- 1. How to Be an Intellectual: Rorty v. Ross -- 2. The Retrospective Tenor of Recent Theory -- 3. The Rise of the Theory Journal -- 4. How Critics Became Smart -- 5. Publicist Intellectuals -- 6. The Ubiquity of Culture -- 7. Credibility and Criticism: On Walter Benn Michaels -- 8. The Statistical Turn in Literary Criticism -- 9. Prodigal Critics: Bloom, Fish, and Greenblatt -- 10. A Life in Criticism: M. H. Abrams -- 11. Bellwether: J. Hillis Miller -- 12. The Political Theory License: Michael Walzer -- 13. The Critic as Wanderer: Terry Eagleton -- 14. From Cyborgs to Animals: Donna Haraway -- 15. Intellectuals and Politics: Stefan Collini -- 16. The Editor as Broker: Gordon Hutner -- 17. Gaga Feminism: Judith “Jack” Halberstam -- 18. Book Angst -- 19. The Pedagogy of Debt -- 20. Student Debt and the Spirit of Indenture -- 21. The Academic Devolution -- 22. The Neoliberal Bias of Higher Education -- 23. The University on Film -- 24. The Thrill Is Gone -- 25. Unlucky Jim -- 26. Academic Opportunities Unlimited -- 27. The Pedagogy of Prison -- 28. Shelf Life -- 29. ; Teacher: Remembering Michael Sprinker -- 30. My Life as Editor -- 31. Other People’s Words -- 32. Long Island Intellectual
• Sommario/riassunto: Over the past decade, Jeffrey J. Williams has been one of the most perceptive observers of contemporary literary and cultural studies. He has also been a shrewd analyst of the state of American higher education. How to Be an Intellectual brings together noted and new essays and exemplifies Williams’s effort to bring criticism to a wider public How to Be an Intellectual profiles a number of critics, drawing on a unique series of interviews that give an inside look at their work and careers. The book often looks at critical thought from surprising angles, examining, for instance, the history of modern American criticism in terms of its keywords as they morphed from sound to rigorous to smart. It also puts in plain language the political travesty of higher education policies that produce student debt, which, as Williams demonstrates, all too readily follow the model of colonial indenture, not just as a metaphor but in actual point of fact. How to Be an Intellectual tells a story of intellectual life since the culture wars. Shedding academic obscurity and calling for a better critical writing, it reflects on what makes the critic and intellectual—the accidents of careers, the trends in thought, the institutions that shape us, and politics. It also includes personal views of living and working with books.

African Environmental Ethics : A Critical Reader / / edited by Munamato Chemhuru

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910337691603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019
• ISBN: 9783030188078; 3-030-18807-8
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2019.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 pages)
• Collana: The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics, , 2215-1737 ; ; 29
• Disciplina: 363.70096; 179.1
• Soggetti: Agriculture; Applied ethics; Environmental law, International; Social sciences; Humanities; Agricultural Ethics; International Environmental Law; Humanities and Social Sciences
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Chapter 1. Environmental Ethics in the Context of African Traditional Thought: Beyond the Impasse (Patrick Giddy) -- Chapter 2. The African Emphasis on Harmonious Relations: Implications for Environmental Justice and Ethics (John Mweshi) -- Chapter 3. The Moral Status of Nature: An African Understanding (Munamato Chemhuru). Chapter 4. Bantu Conceptions of Animals: Its Consequences for Animal Treatment (Grivas Muchneripi Kayange) -- Chapter 5. An African Theory of Moral Status: A Relational Alternative to Individualism and Holism (Thaddeus Metz) -- Chapter 6. An African Land Ethic? The Viability of an Ecocentric Approach to Environmental Ethics and Philosophy (Ernst M. Conradie) -- Chapter 7. Environmental Justice: An African Perspective (Beatrice Okyere-Manu, Margaret Ssebunya, Morgan Nkansah) -- ; Chapter 8. An African Environmental Ethics as a Southern Environmental Ethics (Nompumelelo Zinhle Manzini) -- Chapter 9. An Environmentalist Critique of Secular Humanism in African Philosophy (Motsamai Melefe) -- Chapter 10.Environmental Values in Igbo Spirituality (Emmanuel Nweke Okafor) -- Chapter 11. Animal Rights and Environmental Ethics in Africa: From Anthropocentrism to Non-speciesism? (Kai Horsthemke) -- Chapter 12. Moral Status of Non Human Animal Rights From an African Perspective: In Defense of Moderate Anthropocentric Thinking (Dennis Masaka) -- Chapter 13. Decolonising Human-Animal Relations in an African Context: The Story of Mourning Elephants (Angela Roothaan) -- Chapter 14. Ubuntu and Environmental Ethics: The West can learn from Africa when faced with Climate Change (Aïda Terblanché-Greeff). Chapter 15. Ubuntu Environmental Ethics: Conceptions and Misconceptions (Ephraim Taurai Gwaravanda) -- Chapter 16. Accommodating an African Environmental Ethics in Naussbaum’s Capabilities Approach (Jessica du Plessis) -- Chapter 17. We have chopped down the Rain-making Tree: An African Ethical Concern for Agriculture (Garikai Madavo) -- Chapter 18. New Waves: African Environmental Ethics and Ocean Ecosystems (Michelle Clarke) -- Chapter 19. Cleanliness is Next to Godliness: A Theological Reflection on the Solid Waste Problem in Ghana (Rev. Afia Ban).
• Sommario/riassunto: This book focuses on under-explored and often neglected issues in contemporary African environmental philosophy and ethics. Critical issues such as the moral status of nature, African conceptions of animal moral status and rights, African conceptions of environmental justice, African relational Environmentalism, ubuntu, African theocentric and teleological environmentalism are addressed in this book. It is unique in so far as it goes beyond the generalized focus on African metaphysics and African ethics by exploring how these views might be understood differently in order to conceptualize African environmental ethics. Against the background where environmental problems such as pollution, climate change, extinction of flora and fauna, and global warming are plain to see, it becomes useful to examine how African conceptions of environmental ethics could be understood in order to confront some of these problems facing the whole world. This bookwill be of value to undergraduate students, graduate students and academics working in the area of African Philosophy, African Environmental Ethics and Global Ethics in general. .