Rhetorical Occasions

Essays on Humans and the Humanities

By: Michael Bérubé

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Paperback | 30 October 2006

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A nationally known scholar, essayist, and public advocate for the humanities, Michael Berube has a rapier wit and a singular talent for parsing complex philosophical, theoretical, and political questions. Rhetorical Occasions collects twenty-four of his major essays and reviews, plus a sampling of entries on literary theory and contemporary culture from his award-winning weblog.

Selected to showcase the range of public writing available to scholars, the essays are grouped into five topical sections: the Sokal hoax and its effects on the humanities; cosmopolitanism, American studies, and cultural studies; daily academic life inside and outside the classroom; the events of September 11, 2001, and their political aftermath; and the potential discursive and tonal range of academic blog writing. In lively and entertaining prose, Berube offers a wide array of interventions into matters academic and nonacademic. By example and illustration, he reminds readers that the humanities remain central to our understanding of what it means to be human.

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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: On Occasion	p. 1
Physics	p. 7
The Sokal Hoax for Beginners	p. 15
The Return of Realism and the Future of Contingency	p. 35
Of Fine Clothes and Naked Emperors	p. 54
The Utility of the Arts and Humanities	p. 71
Positions	p. 91
There Is Nothing inside the Text; or, Why No One's Heard of Wolfgang Iser	p. 97
Citizens of the World, Unite: Martha Nussbaum's Plan for Cultivating Humanity	p. 111
American Studies without Exceptions	p. 124
Idolatries of the Marketplace: Thomas Frank, Cultural Studies, and the Voice of the People	p. 140
Professions	p. 149
Days of Future Past	p. 154
Teaching to the Six	p. 166
Working for the U: On the Rhetoric of "Affiliation"	p. 179
Dream a Little Dream	p. 190
Professing and Parenting	p. 194
Speaking of Speakers	p. 199
Universities Should Be Open for Business	p. 204
Analyze, Don't Summarize	p. 209
The Top 10 Contradictory Things about Popular Culture	p. 213
The Elvis Costello Problem	p. 221
Politics	p. 229
The Lefts before 11 September	p. 236
Nation and Narration	p. 244
Can the Left Get Iraq Right?	p. 254
For a Better - and Broader - Antiwar Movement	p. 260
Fighting Liberals	p. 267
The Loyalties of American Studies	p. 275
Posts	p. 287
Azkaban Blogging	p. 293
Back in Les Etats-Unis	p. 296
Vacation Reading II	p. 299
Republican National Convention, Second Night	p. 303
More Plans for Democrats in Distress	p. 307
The Beinart Effect	p. 309
Theory Tuesday II	p. 313
Theory Tuesday III	p. 319
Was I Ever Wrong	p. 328
Index	p. 333
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