Arts of living : reinventing the humanities for the twenty-first century /

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"Arts of Living presents a social history of the humanities and a proposal for the future that places creativity at the heart of higher education. Engaging with the debate launched by Allan Bloom, Harold Bloom, Bill Readings, John Guillory, and others, Kurt Spellmeyer argues that higher educati...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Spellmeyer, Kurt
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2003.
Temas:
Humanities > Study and teaching (Higher) > United States.
Humanities > Philosophy.
Learning and scholarship > United States > History.
Humanities > Political aspects > United States.
Humanities > United States > History.
Savoir et érudition > États-Unis > Histoire.
REFERENCE > Questions & Answers.
Humanities
Humanities > Philosophy
Humanities > Political aspects
Humanities > Study and teaching (Higher)
Learning and scholarship
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Taking the Humanities Out of the Box
  • 2. Democracy Sets in the West : From Able Citizens to Ignorant Masses
  • 3. Great Divide: The Professions Against Civil Society
  • 4. Trouble with English: The Rise of the Professional Humanities and Their Abandonment of Civil Society
  • 5. Poverty of Progress: James Agee, Lionel Trilling, and the Alienation of Knowledge
  • 6. Wages of Theory: Isolation and Knowledge in the Humanities
  • 7. World without End: Criticism or Creation in the Humanities?
  • 8. Specialists with Spirit: The Humanities
  • Outside the University
  • 9. "Art Serves Love": The Arts As a Paradigm for the Humanities
  • 10. Travels to the Heart of the Forest: Dilettantes and Professionals in the Twentieth Century
  • Postscript: Could Teaching, of All Things, Prove to Be Our Salvation?

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