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A Defence Of The Humanities In A Utilitarian Age - ENG

Imagining What We Know, 1800-1850

Paul Keen

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ISBN:	9783030326609
Formato:	ePub
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Springer Nature
Tema:	Crítica literaria
Subtema:	Crítica literaria
Año de publicación:	2020-08-25

This bookÂ explores the ways that critics writing in the early nineteenthÂ 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 â€“ its various pasts and its possible futures â€“ and to suggest the larger contexts within which these issues must ultimately be situated.Â

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