Dædalus was founded in 1955 as the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. It draws on the enormous intellectual capacity of the American Academy, whose members are among the nation's most prominent thinkers in the arts, sciences, and humanities. The theme for the Winter 2014 issue is "What Humanists Do."
Contents:
Introduction
Denis Donoghue
What Ought Humanists To Do?
J. Hillis Miller
Politics & Eternity
Francis Oakley
“Half Art”: Baudelaire’s Le Peintre de la vie moderne
Rachel Bowlby
On Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
Gillian Beer
The Power of Middlemarch
Patricia Meyer Spacks
On Beckett’s “neither” & Giacometti’s Figurine entre deux boîtes qui sont des maisons
James Olney
I’m Not There
Ross Posnock
On Louise Glück’s “Messengers”
Henri Cole
Dido’s Long Dying
Michael C. J. Putnam
Beloved: America’s Grammar Book
Karla FC Holloway
Hooks Baited with Darkness
Scott Russell Sanders
On Reading & Rereading Freud’s Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Steven Marcus
Dædalus was founded in 1955 as the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. It draws on the enormous intellectual capacity of the American Academy, whose members are among the nation's most prominent thinkers in the arts, sciences, and humanities. The theme for the Winter 2014 issue is "What Humanists Do."
Contents:
Introduction
Denis Donoghue
What Ought Humanists To Do?
J. Hillis Miller
Politics & Eternity
Francis Oakley
“Half Art”: Baudelaire’s Le Peintre de la vie moderne
Rachel Bowlby
On Virginia Woolf’s The Waves
Gillian Beer
The Power of Middlemarch
Patricia Meyer Spacks
On Beckett’s “neither” & Giacometti’s Figurine entre deux boîtes qui sont des maisons
James Olney
I’m Not There
Ross Posnock
On Louise Glück’s “Messengers”
Henri Cole
Dido’s Long Dying
Michael C. J. Putnam
Beloved: America’s Grammar Book
Karla FC Holloway
Hooks Baited with Darkness
Scott Russell Sanders
On Reading & Rereading Freud’s Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
Steven Marcus