In this book the author directly confronts an ever more popular suspicion - that a university education in the humanities and social sciences is actually an ‘elitist’ indoctrination into ‘leftist’ or ‘liberal’ views. Having taught them for nearly...Loe edasi...
In this book the author directly confronts an ever more popular suspicion - that a university education in the humanities and social sciences is actually an ‘elitist’ indoctrination into ‘leftist’ or ‘liberal’ views. Having taught them for nearly...Loe edasi...
This book argues that the core content of academic freedom—the principle of supporting andextending open intellectual enquiry—is essential to realizing the full public value of highereducation. John Higgins emphasizes the central...Loe edasi...
The Humanities Crisis and the Future of Literary Studies explores current debates about the role of the humanities in higher education, puts them in historical context, and offers humanists and their supporters concrete ways to explain the practic...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Feb-2003, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9780791456484)
Spellmeyer (English, Rutgers U.) points out that at the beginning of the 20th century, rhetoric and classics formed the core of the humanities curriculum. Though English and history now securely enjoy those exalted position, they may follow their anc...Loe edasi...
In the span of less than a generation, university humanities departments have experienced an almost unbelievable reversal of attitudes, now attacking and undermining what had previously been considered best and most worthy in the Western traditi...Loe edasi...
