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• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 38,9 Mb
• Release Date : 03 October 2013

In The Value of the Humanities prize-winning critic Helen Small assesses the value of the Humanities, eloquently examining five historical arguments in defence of the Humanities.

• Publisher : OUP Oxford
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• Release Date : 04 October 2013

The Value of the Humanities provides a critical account of the principal arguments used to defend the value of the Humanities. The claims considered are: that the Humanities study the

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 47,8 Mb
• Release Date : 24 November 2014

This book is open access under a CC BY license. The first of its kind, this Open Access 'Report' is a first step in assessing the state of the humanities

• Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
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• Release Date : 19 June 2020

Tracing the shift from liberal to neoliberal education from the nineteenth century to the present day, this open access book provides a rich and previously underdeveloped narrative of value in

• Publisher : Lexington Books
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• Release Date : 08 March 2017

Why the Humanities Matter Today explains the importance of philosophy, foreign language, literature, history, political theory, and liberal education in American higher education. The contributors in this book provide new

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• File Size : 43,7 Mb
• Release Date : 08 November 2016

In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education. Historically, the humanities have

• Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
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• Release Date : 19 February 2020

By dwelling on the need for the convergence of business, innovation and the arts, this book highlights the value of lowering the psychological, organizational and institutional barriers that keep them

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 25 February 2016

An entrepreneur and educator highlights the surprising influence of humanities scholarship on biomedical research and civil liberties. This spirited defence urges society to support the humanities to obtain continued guidance

• Publisher : Columbia University Press
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• Release Date : 08 May 2024

Money and support tend to flow in the direction of economics, science, and other academic departments that demonstrate measurable "progress." The humanities, on the other hand, offer more abstract and

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• File Size : 48,9 Mb
• Release Date : 25 September 2018

In Cents and Sensibility, an eminent literary critic and a leading economist make the case that the humanities—especially the study of literature—offer economists ways to make their models