The Countertextual Peripeteias of the Contemporary Humanities as a Political Challenge

I wanted very much to like this paper (I know that sounds ominous). It was confident, astute and clearly written, given the complex nature of the ideas. The writer is obviously intelligent, well-read and audacious to take on such a broad-ranging

This essay is a comprehensive, if exhausting, review of how the humanities have evolved over the last few centuries. There seems, however, to be an implicit contradiction in the paper. While the author rejects the idea of "turn" as a means of discussing the various changes in the humanities, he commits considerable space to discussing the "idea" of turn, and

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To address humanities nowadays, in an era dominated by the universalized principle and value of profit is already a gesture deviating from the main-stream taken for granted beliefs and by the same token a sign of concerns for broader issues which transcend the topic discussed in the article itself. In spite of the totalizing effects of neo-liberal regimes governing the very possibilities and conditions of the choice, process, evaluation and distribution of knowledge production and its acknowledgment, visible in all spheres of contemporary societies, there are still voices drawing intellectual and social attention to the realm of humanities. The fact that specifically the relation of humanities to nowadays' society has been discussed, accompanied by an explicit attitude of concerns and appeal for change, speaks for itself -to mention just a few examples:

This article offers a very insightful, well-research, rigorous reflection on the meaning of the humanities and its possible expansion to include the question of the primacy of writing and literacy in order to interrogate that primacy as foundational to the inclusion of an oral turn. The artcle offers a possible expansion and reconstruction of the meaning of the study of humanities in the university context.

As a historian, many of my colleagues commonly associate the term "concept of turn" exclusively with the "linguistic turn" and the works of scholars like Hayden White, Dominick LaCapra, as well as the "post-structuralists" such as Jacques Derrida, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, among others.

Review of: "The Countertextual Peripeteias of the Contemporary Humanities as a Political Challenge"

The article entitled "The Countertextual Peripeteias of the Contemporary Humanities as a Political Challenge" is a reliable and clear discussion of the problem indicated by the author.It contains a clear introduction to the issue, the definite advantage of which is the discussion of terminological subtleties (differentiation of the concepts: "turn" and "return", explanation of the history and essence of the term "humanities", indication of the meaning of the words "periphery" and "contextuality").A valuable element of the article is addressing the problem of the so-called rhetorical turn and the performative turn.The researchers cited by the author prove his erudition and reliability.The author conducts the argument in a clear and systematic way, rather avoids evaluative sentences in favor of descriptive sentences.Importantly, he puts everything in the philosophical context of considerations.The author's statements and his postmodernist (he agrees with Derrida's standpointo) approach may raise doubts, but this does not change the fact that the article is a reliable approach to the problem of the humanities and its understanding in contemporary culture.