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The Fortunes of the Humanities: Thoughts for After the Year 2000

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Description for The Fortunes of the Humanities: Thoughts for After the Year 2000 paperback. In an era of attacks on the humanities by the right ("Goethe is not taught anymore!") and the left ("Why teach dead white males?"), a distinguished teacher and scholar presents a series of closely interconnected exercises in understanding the present state and future possibilities of the humanities. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: H; JNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3556 x 11. Weight in Grams: 183.

Given the attacks on the humanities by the right ("Goethe is not taught anymore!") and the left ("Why teach dead white males?") over the past decade, how can we teach and research in the humanities in the years to come? Drawing on thirty years of experience, a distinguished teacher and scholar here presents a series of closely interconnected exercises in understanding the present state and future possibilities of the humanities, especially the teaching of "foreign" languages and culture.

Rather than rail at a worldwide conspiracy by universities against the humanities, the author argues that the gradual erosion of the status ... Read more

The underlying theme of the eight essays and addresses, four of them published for the first time, is that teachers in the humanities are the spokespersons of the university's history and future, doing the heavy lifting in teaching the bulk of the students those intellectual skills—critical reading, writing, culture, and thought—that will serve them no matter what their major or future employment. The volume illustrates a series of positions from how a teacher should be able to get tenure to what can be taught in innovative, cross-disciplinary teaching. Other topics address why one should teach European languages, how books and jobs are related in today's academy, and whether scientific research can have a place in the teaching of the humanities.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804732642
SKU
V9780804732642
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About Sander L. Gilman
Sander L. Gilman is Henry R. Luce Distinguished Service Professor of the Liberal Arts in Human Biology, Professor of Germanic Studies, Comparative Literature, and Psychiatry at the University of Chicago. Among his many books is Love + Marriage = Death and Other Essays Representing Difference (Stanford, 1998).

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