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Language: en
Pages: 168
Authors: Lee Trepanier
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-08 - Publisher: Lexington Books

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The humanities in American higher education is in a state of crisis with declining student enrollment, fewer faculty positions, and diminishing public prestige.
Why the Humanities Matter
Language: en
Pages: 393
Authors: Frederick Luis Aldama
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-09-15 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

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This wide-ranging study of the influence of postmodernism on contemporary culture offers a trenchant and uplifting defense of the humanities. Is there life afte
The Value of the Humanities
Language: en
Pages: 213
Authors: Helen Small
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-03 - Publisher: Academic

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In The Value of the Humanities prize-winning critic Helen Small assesses the value of the Humanities, eloquently examining five historical arguments in defence
Not for Profit
Language: en
Pages: 200
Authors: Martha C. Nussbaum
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-08 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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A passionate defense of the humanities from one of today's foremost public intellectuals In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum
The Humanities and the Dream of America
Language: en
Pages: 255
Authors: Geoffrey Galt Harpham
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-02-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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In this bracing and original book, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that today’s humanities are an invention of the American academy in the years following World