9780822958864-0822958864-Writing at the End of the World (Composition, Literacy, and Culture)

Writing at the End of the World (Composition, Literacy, and Culture)

ISBN-13: 9780822958864
ISBN-10: 0822958864
Edition: 1
Author: Richard E. Miller
Publication date: 2005
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Format: Paperback 248 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780822958864
ISBN-10: 0822958864
Edition: 1
Author: Richard E. Miller
Publication date: 2005
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Format: Paperback 248 pages

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Writing at the End of the World (Composition, Literacy, and Culture) (ISBN-13: 9780822958864 and ISBN-10: 0822958864), written by authors Richard E. Miller, was published by University of Pittsburgh Press in 2005. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other Writing (Social Sciences, Higher & Continuing Education, Writing, Research & Publishing Guides) books. You can easily purchase or rent Writing at the End of the World (Composition, Literacy, and Culture) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Writing books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.54.

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What do the humanities have to offer in the twenty-first century? Are there compelling reasons to go on teaching the literate arts when the schools themselves have become battlefields? Does it make sense to go on writing when the world itself is overrun with books that no one reads? In these simultaneously personal and erudite reflections on the future of higher education, Richard E. Miller moves from the headlines to the classroom, focusing in on how teachers and students alike confront the existential challenge of making life meaningful. In meditating on the violent events that now dominate our daily lives—school shootings, suicide bombings, terrorist attacks, contemporary warfare—Miller prompts a reconsideration of the role that institutions of higher education play in shaping our daily experiences, and asks us to reimagine the humanities as centrally important to the maintenance of a compassionate, secular society. By concentrating on those moments when individuals and institutions meet and violence results, Writing at the End of the World provides the framework that students and teachers require to engage in the work of building a better future.

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