A Defense of Judgment by Clune, Michael W.
A Defense of Judgment by Clune, Michael W.

A Defense of Judgment

Teachers of literature make judgments about value. They tell their students which works are powerful, beautiful, surprising,...
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Author: Michael W. Clune
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Language: English
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A Defense of Judgment by Clune, Michael W.

A Defense of Judgment

CHF 63.89
A Defense of Judgment by Clune, Michael W.

A Defense of Judgment

CHF 63.89
Author: Michael W. Clune
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Teachers of literature make judgments about value. They tell their students which works are powerful, beautiful, surprising, strange, or insightful--and thus, which are more worthy of time and attention than others. Yet the field of literary studies has largely disavowed judgments of artistic value on the grounds that they are inevitably rooted in prejudice or entangled in problems of social status. For several decades now, professors have called their work value-neutral, simply a means for students to gain cultural, political, or historical knowledge.

​Michael W. Clune's provocative book challenges these objections to judgment and offers a positive account of literary studies as an institution of aesthetic education. It is impossible, Clune argues, to separate judgments about literary value from the practices of interpretation and analysis that constitute any viable model of literary expertise. Clune envisions a progressive politics freed from the strictures of dogmatic equality and enlivened by education in aesthetic judgment, transcending consumer culture and market preferences. Drawing on psychological and philosophical theories of knowledge and perception, Clune advocates for the cultivation of what John Keats called "negative capability," the capacity to place existing criteria in doubt and to discover new concepts and new values in artworks. Moving from theory to practice, Clune takes up works by Keats, Emily Dickinson, Gwendolyn Brooks, Samuel Beckett, and Thomas Bernhard, showing how close reading--the profession's traditional key skill--harnesses judgment to open new modes of perception.

Author: Michael W. Clune
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 04/23/2021
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.80w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780226770154


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About the Author
Michael W. Clune is the Samuel B. and Virginia C. Knight Professor of Humanities at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of Writing Against Time; American Literature and the Free Market, 1945-2000; Gamelife; and White Out: The Secret Life of Heroin.
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