The value of the humanities /
The Value of the Humanities provides a critical account of the principal arguments used to defend the value of the Humanities. The claims considered are: that the Humanities study the meaning-making practices of culture, and bring to their work a distinctive understanding of what constitutes knowled...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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Edición: | First edition. |
Colección: | [The literary agenda series]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Distinction from other disciplines
- Use and usefulness
- Socrates dissatisfied : the argument for a contribution to happiness
- 'Democracy needs us' : the gadfly argument for the humanities
- For its own sake
- Conclusion: On public value.