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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references |
| Beschreibung: | 176 pages |
| ISBN: | 9781589881167 |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
Introduction 1
PART ONE
The Useful Uselessness of Literature
1. “He who acquires not, exists not” 22
2. Knowledge without profit is useless! 23
3. What’s water? An anecdote from
David Foster Wallace 24
4. Colonel Buendia s little gold fish 25
5. Dante and Petrarch: literature should not be
subservient to profit 26
6. The literature of utopia and golden chamber pots 27
7. Jim Hawkins: treasure hunter or numismatist? 30
8. The Merchant of Venice՝, the pound of flesh,
the Kingdom of Belmont, and the hermeneutics
of Socrates 33
9. Aristotle: learning has no practical usefulness 42
10. Pure theorist or philosopher-king? Plato’s
contradictions 43
11. Kant: the pleasure of beauty is disinterested 46
12. Ovid: nothing is more useful than
the useless arts 47
13. Montaigne: “nothing is useless,” “not even
uselessness itselP’ 48
14. Leopardi the flaneur: the choice of the useless
against the utilitarianism of a “proud and
foolish age” 50
15. Théophile Gautier: “what is useful is ugly”
as “the jakes” 53
16. Baudelaire: a useful man is a squalid one 58
17. John Locke against poetry 60
18. Boccaccio: “bread” and poetry 62
19. García Lorca: it is unwise to live without
the madness of poetry 62
20. The madness of Don Quixote, the hero
of the useless and the gratuitous 63
21. The Facts of Coketown: Dickens s criticism
of utilitarianism 66
22. Heidegger: it is hard to understand the useless 67
23. Uselessness and the essence of life: Zhuang-zi
and Kakuzo Okakura 68
24. Eugène Ionesco: the useful is a useless burden 70
25. Italo Calvino: the gratuitous is revealed
to be essential 71
26. Emil Cioran and Socrates flute 72
PART TWO
The University as Company,
the Student as Client
1. The disengagement of the state 76
2. The student as client 77
3. Universities as companies and teachers
as bureaucrats 78
4. Hugo: the crisis can be beaten not by cutting
the culture budget but by doubling it 81
5. Tocqueville: easy beauties” and the perils
of commercial democracies 84
6. Herzen: timeless merchants 86
7. Bataille: the limits of utility and the vitality
of the superfluous 87
8. Against the professionalizing university:
John Henry Newman 90
9. What is the use of dead languages? John Locke
and Antonio Gramsci 92
10. The planned disappearance of the classics 96
11. The encounter with a classic can change your life
12. Libraries at risk: the sensational case of
the Warburg Institute 99
13. The disappearance of historic bookstores 102
14. The unexpected utility of the useless sciences 103
15. What do you get from a theorem? From Euclid
to Archimedes 105
16. Poincare: “science does not study nature”
to look for “utility” 106
17. “Knowledge is an asset that can be transmitted
without becoming poor” in
PART THREE
Possession Kills:
Dignitas HominiSy Love, Truth
1. The voice of the classics 114
2. Dignitas hominis: the illusion of wealth and
the prostitution of knowledge 114
3. Loving in order to possess is the death of love 120
4. The possession of truth is the death of truth 127
Bibliography 137
The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
by Abraham Flexner 155
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