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This introductory chapter briefly discusses the rhetoric surrounding the humanities currently, such as the decimation of humanities majors and programs at colleges and universities across the country. The age of the Alt-Right is also discussed, especially as it pertains to the election of Donald Trump. This chapter concludes by drawing a relationship between this age of the Alt-Right and the dismissal of the humanities overall.
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- 1.
William V. Spanos, “Posthumanism in the Age of Globalization: Rethinking The End of Education,” symplokē 23, nos. 1–2 (2015): 16.
- 2.
Ibid, 16.
- 3.
Ibid, 16–17.
- 4.
Justin Stover, “There is No Case for the Humanities: And deep down we know our justifications for it are hollow,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 4, 2018, https://www.chronicle.com/article/There-Is-No-Case-for-the/242724
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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Aaron Hanlon, “Lies About the Humanities – and the Lying Liars who Tell Them,” The Chronicle Review, December 14, 2018, https://www.chronicle.com/article/Lies-About-the-Humanities-/245261
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Ibid.
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Ibid.
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Emily Shugerman, “This is the letter Barack Obama is sending to Americans worried about Trump,” The Independent US, November 4, 2017, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/barack-obama-response-letter-donald-trump-concerned-americans-a8038036.html
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Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (New York: Routledge, 1966), x.
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Curtis Yarvin, “Against Political Freedom,” Unqualified Reservations, 2007, https://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.ca/2007/08/against-political-freedom.html
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Nick Land, “The Dark Enlightenment,” 2013, http://www.thedarkenlightenment.com/the-dark-enlightenment-by-nick-land/
- 14.
Ibid.
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Allum Bokhari and Milo Yiannopoulos, “An Establishment Conservative’s Guide to the Alt-Right,” March 29, 2016, http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/03/29/an-establishment-conservatives-guide-to-the-alt-right/
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Brett Stevens, “Why the Alternative Right Will Absorb NeoReaction,” Amerika, 2016, http://www.amerika.org/politics/why-the-alternative-right-will-absorb-neoreaction/
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Lionel Trilling, The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society (New York: New York Review of Books, 1950) xv.
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Battista, C.M., Sande, M.R. (2019). Introduction: The State of the Humanities and the Age of the Alt-Right. In: Battista, C., Sande, M. (eds) Critical Theory and the Humanities in the Age of the Alt-Right. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18753-8_1
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