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Time, Doubt and Wonder in the Humanities: Between the Tick and the Tock
Contributor(s): Chakravarty, Prasanta (Author)
ISBN: 9388134257     ISBN-13: 9789388134255
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic India
OUR PRICE:   $109.25  
Product Type: Hardcover
Published: May 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century
- Literary Criticism | Asian - General
Physical Information: 336 pages
 
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Time, Doubt and Wonder in the Humanities addresses a serious lacuna in humanities studies. It affirms our commitment to wonder and adventure in living by confronting the subtext that lies within the manifold worldly, social and political vicissitudes and tribulations. The essays in this volume speak to our times and make sense of the idea of temporality in general by using wonder as an inclusive metaphor, which engulfs fortitude, anguish, joy, providence, submission, precariousness and revulsion. Wonder could lead to curiosity to inspiration to doubt to questioning to indignation to seeking of justice.
The book offers a benchmark in thinking about why we must take literature and art seriously in times of great political turmoil. It affirms that the shape and contour of literary studies shall depend on how the coming generation maintains a delicate balance among inspiration, doubt and faith.