Permanent crisis the humanities in a disenchanted age
Any reader of the Chronicle of Higher Education can tell you that the humanities are in crisis. Seen as irrelevant for modern careers and hopelessly devoid of funding, humanistic disciplines seem at the mercy of modernizing forces driving the university towards academic pursuits that pull in grant m...
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press
[2021]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- The modern university and the dream of intellectual unity
- The lament of the melancholy mandarins
- Philology and modernity : Nietzsche on education
- The mandarins of the lab : the humanities in "the age of the natural sciences"
- The consolation of the modern humanities
- Max Weber, scholarship, and modern asceticism
- Crisis, democracy, and the humanities in America
- Conclusion.
