Introduction: a new humanism
Self, identity, and ideas
Revisiting Derrida, Lacan, and Foucault
Derrida gets medieval
Imaginary empires, real nations
Edward Said spaced out
Modernity, what?
Teachers, scholars, and the humanities today
Translation matters
Can music resist?
The "cultural studies turn" in Brown studies
Pulling up stakes in Latin/o American theoretical claims
Fugitive thoughts on justice and happiness
Why literature matters
Interpretation, interdisciplinarity, and the people.
Why the humanities matter : a commonsense approach by Frederick Luis Aldama. ISBN 9780292717985. Published by University of Texas Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.