Humanities

The humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences.
The humanities include ancient and modern languages, literature, law, history, philosophy, religion, and visual and performing arts such as music and theatre. The humanities that are also regarded as social sciences include technology, anthropology, area studies, communication studies, cultural studies, and linguistics. Scholars working in the humanities are sometimes describe
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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The Prince
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
Man's Search for Meaning
The Republic
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The Communist Manifesto
The Odyssey
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The Art of War
Hamlet
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Orientalism

Terry Eagleton
What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Margaret Thatcher, the role of academia has been to service the status quo, not challenge it in the name of justice, tradition, imagination, human welfare, the free play of the mind or alternative visions of the future. We will not change this simply by increasing state funding of the humanities as opposed to slashing it to nothing. We will change it by insisting that a critical reflection on human ...more
Terry Eagleton

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You can’t enjoy art or books in a hurry.
E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

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