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A Defence of the Humanities in a Utilitarian Age - Imagining What We Know, 1800-1850 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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A Defence of the Humanities in a Utilitarian Age - Imagining What We Know, 1800-1850 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
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This book explores the ways that critics writing in the early
nineteenth century developed arguments in favour of the humanities
in the face of utilitarian pressures. Its focus reflects the ways
that similar pressures today have renewed the question of how to
make the case for the public value of the humanities. The good news
is that in many ways, this self-reflexive challenge is precisely
what the humanities have always done best: highlight the nature and
the force of the narratives that have helped to define how we
understand our society - its various pasts and its possible futures
- and to suggest the larger contexts within which these issues must
ultimately be situated.
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