What's happened to the humanities? /
Kernan, Alvin B.
What's happened to the humanities? / edited by Alvin Kernan. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1997. - viii, 267 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Introduction: Change in the Humanities and Higher Education / Democratization and Decline? The Consequences of Demographic Change in the Humanities / Funding Trends in the Academic Humanities, 1970-1995: Reflections on the Stability of the System / Ignorant Armies and Nighttime Clashes: Changes in the Humanities Classroom, 1970-1995 / Evolution and Revolution: Change in the Literary Humanities, 1968-1995 / Humanities and the Library in the Digital Age / The Practice of Reading / "Beyond Method" / Changing Epochs / The Pursuit of Metaphor / The Demise of Disciplinary Authority / Scholarship as Social Action / William G. Bowen and Harold T. Shapiro -- Alvin Kernan -- Lynn Hunt -- John H. D'Arms -- Francis Oakley -- Margery Sabin -- Carla Hesse -- Denis Donoghue -- Gertrude Himmelfarb -- Frank Kermode -- Christopher Ricks -- Louis Menand -- David Bromrich -- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Tables and Figures on B.A.s and Ph.D.s in the Humanities, 1966-1993. Appendix.
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. What the essays make clear, is that as the humanities have become less significant in American higher education, they have also been the scene of unusually energetic social, pedagogical, and intellectual changes. The essays do not center on whether the changes described have been for good or bad, or on what remedial actions might be taken to halt the decay of interest in the humanities, but on the nature and extent of the changes. The authors have opinions, of course, but they have focused on areas - demographics, patronage, books - where it is possible, if not to be entirely objective, at least to be sufficiently factual to discuss the issues meaningfully.
0691011559 (cloth : alk. paper)
96028325
Humanities--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.
Humanities--Philosophy.
Learning and scholarship--History.--United States
AZ183.U5 / G46 1997
001.3/071/173
What's happened to the humanities? / edited by Alvin Kernan. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1997. - viii, 267 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Introduction: Change in the Humanities and Higher Education / Democratization and Decline? The Consequences of Demographic Change in the Humanities / Funding Trends in the Academic Humanities, 1970-1995: Reflections on the Stability of the System / Ignorant Armies and Nighttime Clashes: Changes in the Humanities Classroom, 1970-1995 / Evolution and Revolution: Change in the Literary Humanities, 1968-1995 / Humanities and the Library in the Digital Age / The Practice of Reading / "Beyond Method" / Changing Epochs / The Pursuit of Metaphor / The Demise of Disciplinary Authority / Scholarship as Social Action / William G. Bowen and Harold T. Shapiro -- Alvin Kernan -- Lynn Hunt -- John H. D'Arms -- Francis Oakley -- Margery Sabin -- Carla Hesse -- Denis Donoghue -- Gertrude Himmelfarb -- Frank Kermode -- Christopher Ricks -- Louis Menand -- David Bromrich -- 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Tables and Figures on B.A.s and Ph.D.s in the Humanities, 1966-1993. Appendix.
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. What the essays make clear, is that as the humanities have become less significant in American higher education, they have also been the scene of unusually energetic social, pedagogical, and intellectual changes. The essays do not center on whether the changes described have been for good or bad, or on what remedial actions might be taken to halt the decay of interest in the humanities, but on the nature and extent of the changes. The authors have opinions, of course, but they have focused on areas - demographics, patronage, books - where it is possible, if not to be entirely objective, at least to be sufficiently factual to discuss the issues meaningfully.
0691011559 (cloth : alk. paper)
96028325
Humanities--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.
Humanities--Philosophy.
Learning and scholarship--History.--United States
AZ183.U5 / G46 1997
001.3/071/173