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A Defence of the Humanities in a Utilitarian Age: Imagining What We Know, 1800-1850

By Paul Keen

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2020
ISBN
9783030326593, 9783030326609
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2142384 bytes)
Series
Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
Pages
171\176
Time added
2020-08-27 15:43:37

Description

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. Acknowledgments Contents List of Figures Introduction: The Humanities in a Utilitarian Age II III Chapter 1: Interventions II III IV Chapter 2: Accommodations II III Chapter 3: Institutions II III Chapter 4: The Idea of a University Conclusion Works Cited Index

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