What Are the Humanities For?

It offers readers bold ideas about how to think with greater humanistic coherence.

List of contents

I. What are the Humanities?: 1. Humanities: a tentative definition; 2. Understanding others; 3. Self-involving: philosophy and theology; 4. Responsible scholarship; II. Who Needs the Humanities?: 5. Professionals: how to live with interpretations; 6. Humans; 7. The value of the humanities.

About the author

Willem B. Drees is a philosopher of the humanities and of religion, a former academic dean, member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW), recipient of two Fulbright Grants, and author of Beyond the Big Bang: Quantum Cosmologies and God (1990) and Religion, Science and Naturalism (1996).

Summary

This book offers scholars, administrators and the broader public an original proposal for the humanities. It argues that these disciplines, while serving society, are intrinsic to our humanity. It offers new bold ideas about how to think with greater humanistic coherence.

Product details

• Authors: Willem B Drees, Willem B. Drees, Willem B. (Tilburg University Drees, Drees Willem B.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781108838412
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83841-2
• No. of pages: 202
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, RELIGION / Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Religion: general, Religious issues & debates, Philosophy of religion, Religious issues and debates