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Review Notices : Liberations. New Essays on the Humanities in Revolution. Edited by Ihab Hassan. Middletown. Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press. 1971. xvi + 216 pp. $10.00

Review Notices : Liberations. New Essays on the Humanities in Revolution. Edited by Ihab Hassan.... Review Notices Liberations. New on the Humanities in Revolution. Edited Ihab Hassan. Essays Middletown. by Connecticut : Press. xvi 216 Wesleyan University 1971. pp. $10.00. The authors of these were associated with the Centre for Humanities essays Wesleyan in Its director was Ihab its theme the ’Humanities in Revolu- 1969-70. Hassan, grand tion’. Its Fellows included David Leslie A. Frank Visiting Daiches, Fiedler, John Cage, Harold and the R. Buckminster Fuller. But from Kermode, Rosenberg, septuagenarian historians and novelists came now many others, critics, alike, contributions, important collected in this handsome on the central issues of our time. The authors shared volume, a common the social unrest and student-riots of a and common background, 1969-70, intention: to liberate the humanities from old and to break to new pieties through forms of intellectual conduct. Sandwiched between on John Cage’s improvizations ’How to the World’ and Buckminster Fuller’s manual for Improve operating Spaceship Earth are the more sober statements on the roles of the arts and the humanities. changing Michael Wolff the Revolution: The Arena of Victorian (’Understanding Britain’) makes a for ’a new version of the the need to ’to see passionate humanities’, plea try events and even not in relation to traditions and but to persons, ones, great heritages the of numbers of human White’s incomplete humanity large beings’. Hayden analysis of the current cultural rebellion tradition and forms of intellectual magisterial against conduct Culture of a shrewd contains on Gombrich’s (’The Criticism’) commentary ’Western art’ and Auerbach’s ’Western literature’. One of the best contributions, on the shift from ’What is to ’What is comes from Louis Mink beauty?’ art?’, (’Art Without Frank Kermode The Role of the achieves one Artists’). (’Revolution: Elders’) of his familiar acts: a confession of errors we was ... Dada’) > balancing (’what forgot combined with a for to do as he likes of sense of plea everybody’s right (’Ways making the world are so in our time. with the revolution means plural, incorrigibly Living with that. It does not mean our own of David living ways making sense’). abandoning Daiches and the is less on than he (’Politics Literary Imagination’) interesting politics is on the nature of modernist which he calls art, ’Janus-faced, combining ambiguous a to the with an ideal vision of order which smash revolutionary urge system existing is often After Harold and Richard Poirier’s con- politically reactionary’. Rosenberg’s tributions on and follows the final section of which is Liberations, politics performance devoted to the future. Leslie A. in one of his more reflects Fiedler, moods, self-indulgent on ’The Return of the and the wisdom contained in the Vanishing Longfellow’ mythic and sentimental clichcs of The editor of the in a entitled ’Fiction volume, Pop. piece what he has called Future: An for Voice and practices Extravaganza Tape’, vigorously themselves whether this elsewhere ’Paracriticism’. Readers must decide for quest, in that comfort and for some natural wisdom lost dreams ’beyond criticism, may guide cultural and a hoax or a valid new form of criticism. evolution’ is biological desperate It is a form which accommodate of the can certainly complex responses contemporary and in tone is akin to what Kafka and Rilke meant sensibility, strangely by ’praying’. F. M. K. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of European Studies SAGE

Review Notices : Liberations. New Essays on the Humanities in Revolution. Edited by Ihab Hassan. Middletown. Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press. 1971. xvi + 216 pp. $10.00

Journal of European Studies , Volume 2 (3): 1 – Sep 1, 1972
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Review Notices Liberations. New on the Humanities in Revolution. Edited Ihab Hassan. Essays Middletown. by Connecticut : Press. xvi 216 Wesleyan University 1971. pp. $10.00. The authors of these were associated with the Centre for Humanities essays Wesleyan in Its director was Ihab its theme the ’Humanities in Revolu- 1969-70. Hassan, grand tion’. Its Fellows included David Leslie A. Frank Visiting Daiches, Fiedler, John Cage, Harold and the R. Buckminster Fuller. But from Kermode, Rosenberg, septuagenarian historians and novelists came now many others, critics, alike, contributions, important collected in this handsome on the central issues of our time. The authors shared volume, a common the social unrest and student-riots of a and common background, 1969-70, intention: to liberate the humanities from old and to break to new pieties through forms of intellectual conduct. Sandwiched between on John Cage’s improvizations ’How to the World’ and Buckminster Fuller’s manual for Improve operating Spaceship Earth are the more sober statements on the roles of the arts and the humanities. changing Michael Wolff the Revolution: The Arena of Victorian (’Understanding Britain’) makes a for ’a new version of the the need to ’to see passionate humanities’, plea try events and even not in relation to traditions and but to persons, ones, great heritages the of numbers of human White’s incomplete humanity large beings’. Hayden analysis of the current cultural rebellion tradition and forms of intellectual magisterial against conduct Culture of a shrewd contains on Gombrich’s (’The Criticism’) commentary ’Western art’ and Auerbach’s ’Western literature’. One of the best contributions, on the shift from ’What is to ’What is comes from Louis Mink beauty?’ art?’, (’Art Without Frank Kermode The Role of the achieves one Artists’). (’Revolution: Elders’) of his familiar acts: a confession of errors we was ... Dada’) > balancing (’what forgot combined with a for to do as he likes of sense of plea everybody’s right (’Ways making the world are so in our time. with the revolution means plural, incorrigibly Living with that. It does not mean our own of David living ways making sense’). abandoning Daiches and the is less on than he (’Politics Literary Imagination’) interesting politics is on the nature of modernist which he calls art, ’Janus-faced, combining ambiguous a to the with an ideal vision of order which smash revolutionary urge system existing is often After Harold and Richard Poirier’s con- politically reactionary’. Rosenberg’s tributions on and follows the final section of which is Liberations, politics performance devoted to the future. Leslie A. in one of his more reflects Fiedler, moods, self-indulgent on ’The Return of the and the wisdom contained in the Vanishing Longfellow’ mythic and sentimental clichcs of The editor of the in a entitled ’Fiction volume, Pop. piece what he has called Future: An for Voice and practices Extravaganza Tape’, vigorously themselves whether this elsewhere ’Paracriticism’. Readers must decide for quest, in that comfort and for some natural wisdom lost dreams ’beyond criticism, may guide cultural and a hoax or a valid new form of criticism. evolution’ is biological desperate It is a form which accommodate of the can certainly complex responses contemporary and in tone is akin to what Kafka and Rilke meant sensibility, strangely by ’praying’. F. M. K.

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