Thomas More Lecture: Wendy Brown / Depoliticizing the Humanities

This talk reflects on what animates the most recent iteration of attacks on liberal arts higher education and considers how we might respond most effectively. Polemically, Wendy Brown argues that the classroom is not a place to teach or promulgate values, but rather a place to teach how values are made—how worlds are built in their image, and how we carry them, often unwittingly, in our ways of seeing and interpreting, in our language and in our conduct. Substantively, the talk explores how to sustain the distinction between promulgating and analyzing values in order to teach students to take values more seriously, think about them more carefully, and cultivate them more deeply.

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