Paul Keen

A Defence of the Humanities in a Utilitarian Age (eBook, PDF)

Imagining What We Know, 1800-1850

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the ways that critics writing in the early nineteenth century developed arguments in favour of the humanities in the face of utilitarian pressures. Its focus reflects the ways that similar pressures today have renewed the question of how to make the case for the public value of the humanities. The good news is that in many ways, this self-reflexive challenge is precisely what the humanities have always done best: highlight the nature and the force of the narratives that have helped to define how we understand our society - its various pasts and its possible futures - and to suggest the larger contexts within which these issues must ultimately be situated.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
• Seitenzahl: 171
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783030326609
• Artikelnr.: 60051497

Autorenporträt

Paul Keen is Professor of English at Carleton University, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Humanities in a Utilitarian Age.- Chapter 1: Interventions.- Chapter 2: Accommodations.- Chapter 3: Institutions.- Chapter 4: The Idea of a University. - Conclusion.