A Defence of the Humanities in a Utilitarian Age - Imagining What We Know, 1800-1850 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print
Release date:	August 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Paul Keen
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	171
Edition:	1st ed. 2020
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-032659-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > General
LSN:	3-03-032659-4
Barcode:	9783030326593

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