Whats Happened to the Humanities?
：What's Happened to the Humanities?
( Princeton Legacy Library )
Publication subTitle ：What's Happened to the Humanities?
Publication series ：Princeton Legacy Library
Author： Kernan Alvin B.;Bowen William G.;Shapiro Harold T.;
Publisher： Princeton University Press
Publication year： 2014
E-ISBN: 9781400864522
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691011554
Subject： G Culture, Science , Education, Sports;G64 Higher Education
Keyword： 文化、科学、教育、体育
Language： ENG
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Description
This volume of specially commissioned original essays presents the thoughts of some of the most distinguished commentators within the American academy on the fundamental changes that have taken place in the humanities in the latter part of the twentieth century. In the transformation of American higher education from the university to the "demoversity," the humanities have become a less and less important part of education, a matter established by a statistical appendix and elaborated on in several of the essays. The individual essays offer close observations into how the humanities have been affected by declining academic status, by demographic shifts, by reductions in financial support, and by changing communication technology. They also explore the effect of these forces on books, libraries, and the phenomenology of reading in the age of images. When basic conditions change, theory follows, and several essays trace the appearance and effect of new relativistic epistemologies in the humanities. Social institutions change as well in such circumstances, and the volume concludes with studies of the new social arrangements that have developed in the humanities in recent years: the attack on professionalism and the effort to transform the humanities into the social conscience of academia and even of the nation as a whole.
Cause and effect? Who can say? What the essays make clear, however, is that as the humanities have become less significant in American higher educati
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