Humanities and the Dream of America

Zusammenfassung Argues that the humanities - the academic disciplines that study the potential of the human - represent a 'dream of America.' This title explores a number of linked problems: the role! at once inspiring and disturbing! played by modern philology in the discipline's formation; and! the reasons behind the humanities' perpetual state of crisis.

Product details

• Authors: Geoffrey Galt Harpham, HARPHAM GEOFFREY GALT
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2011
• EAN: 9780226316970
• ISBN: 978-0-226-31697-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Adult education; USA, History, History of Ideas, HISTORY / Social History, Humanities, United States of America, USA, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher