Humanities and the Dream of America

Informationen zum Autor Geoffrey Galt Harpham is president and director of the National Humanities Center. He is the author of many books! including! most recently! The Character of Criticism. Klappentext 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. 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
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2011
• EAN: 9780226316994
• ISBN: 978-0-226-31699-4
• 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