Arts of Living
Reinventing the Humanities for the Twenty-first Century
Published on 27. February 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
312 pages
978-0-7914-5648-4 (ISBN)
Description
Argues that higher education needs to abandon the "culture wars" if it hopes to address the major crises of the century.
Arts of Living presents a social history of the humanities and a proposal for the future that places creativity at the heart of higher education. Engaging with the debate launched by Allan Bloom, Harold Bloom, Bill Readings, John Guillory, and others, Kurt Spellmeyer argues that higher education needs to abandon the "culture wars" if it hopes to address the major crises of the century: globalization, the degradation of the environment, the widening chasm between rich and poor, and the clash of cultures.
Arts of Living presents a social history of the humanities and a proposal for the future that places creativity at the heart of higher education. Engaging with the debate launched by Allan Bloom, Harold Bloom, Bill Readings, John Guillory, and others, Kurt Spellmeyer argues that higher education needs to abandon the "culture wars" if it hopes to address the major crises of the century: globalization, the degradation of the environment, the widening chasm between rich and poor, and the clash of cultures.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
528 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7914-5648-4 (9780791456484)
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E-Book
02/2012
1st Edition
De Gruyter
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Person
Kurt Spellmeyer is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University.
Content
Acknowledgments
Part I
1. Taking the Humanities Out of the Box
2. Democracy Sets in the West: From Able Citizens to Ignorant Masses
3. The Great Divide: The Professions Against Civil Society
4. The Trouble with English: The Rise of the Professional Humanities and Their Abandonment of Civil Society
5. The Poverty of Progress: James Agee, Lionel Trilling, and the Alienation of Knowledge
Part II
6. The Wages of Theory: Isolation and Knowledge in the Humanities
7. World without End: Criticism or Creation in the Humanities?
8. Specialists with Spirit: The Humanities-Outside the University
9. "Art Serves Love": The Arts As a Paradigm for the Humanities
10. Travels to the Heart of the Forest: Dilettantes and Professionals in the Twentieth Century
Postscript: Could Teaching, of All Things, Prove to Be Our Salvation?
Notes
Index
Part I
1. Taking the Humanities Out of the Box
2. Democracy Sets in the West: From Able Citizens to Ignorant Masses
3. The Great Divide: The Professions Against Civil Society
4. The Trouble with English: The Rise of the Professional Humanities and Their Abandonment of Civil Society
5. The Poverty of Progress: James Agee, Lionel Trilling, and the Alienation of Knowledge
Part II
6. The Wages of Theory: Isolation and Knowledge in the Humanities
7. World without End: Criticism or Creation in the Humanities?
8. Specialists with Spirit: The Humanities-Outside the University
9. "Art Serves Love": The Arts As a Paradigm for the Humanities
10. Travels to the Heart of the Forest: Dilettantes and Professionals in the Twentieth Century
Postscript: Could Teaching, of All Things, Prove to Be Our Salvation?
Notes
Index