Most Read This Week In 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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Annotation (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
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Abhijit Naskar
Empirical disciplines will take us to the stars, but it's humanities that make sure, we don't leave behind our humanity, otherwise we'll just end up a bunch of space monkeys. ...more
Abhijit Naskar, Sonnets From The Mountaintop

Terry Eagleton
When they first emerged in their present shape around the turn of the 18th century, the so-called humane disciplines had a crucial social role. It was to foster and protect the kind of values for which a philistine social order had precious little time. The modern humanities and industrial capitalism were more or less twinned at birth. To preserve a set of values and ideas under siege, you needed among other things institutions known as universities set somewhat apart from everyday social life. ...more
Terry Eagleton

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