| A Time for the Humanities: Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy Subjects: Humanities -- Philosophy; Humanities -- Social aspects; Autonomy; Humanities -- Forecasting; Geopolitics -- Forecasting; Civilization Modern -- 21st century -- Forecasting; Social change -- Forecasting; This book brings together an international roster of renowned scholars from disciplines including philosophy, political theory, intellectual history, and literary studies to address the conceptual foundations of the humanities and the question of their future. What notions of the future, of the human, and of finitude underlie recurring anxieties about the humanities in our current geopolitical situation? How can we think about the unpredictable and unthought dimensions of praxis implicit in the very notion of futurity? Bono James J. : JAMES J. BONO is Associate Professor of History and of Medicine at the University at Buffalo.Dean Tim : TIM DEAN is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of the Humanities Institute at the University at Buffalo.Ziarek Ewa Plonowska : EWA PLONOWSKA ZIAREK is Julian Park Professor of Comparative Literature and Founding Director of the Humanities Institute at the University at Buffalo. |