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.
| ISBN: | 9783030326623 |
| Publication date: | 26th August 2021 |
| Author: | Paul Keen |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 171 pages |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Social and cultural history Philosophical traditions and schools of thought Cultural studies |
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.
A Defence of the Humanities in a Utilitarian Age features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Social and cultural history, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Cultural studies
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