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The Fortunes of the Humanities - Thoughts for After the Year 2000 (Paperback)
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The Fortunes of the Humanities - Thoughts for After the Year 2000 (Paperback)
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Given the attacks on the humanities by the right ("Goethe is not
taught anymore ") and the left ("Why teach dead white males?") over
the past decade, how can we teach and research in the humanities in
the years to come? Drawing on thirty years of experience, a
distinguished teacher and scholar here presents a series of closely
interconnected exercises in understanding the present state and
future possibilities of the humanities, especially the teaching of
"foreign" languages and culture.
Rather than rail at a worldwide conspiracy by universities against
the humanities, the author argues that the gradual erosion of the
status of the humanities has been due to the muddling of the goals
of teachers, students, and administrators: "all" are at fault.
Teachers are at fault because they have lost sight of the goal of
their profession--the clear and direct transmission of critical
thinking and complex knowledge to those who may not immediately
benefit from it. Students are at fault because they want social
mobility without the necessary investment of time in an
apprenticeship to learning and the generation of knowledge.
Administrators are at fault because they want to have an
economically viable structure in a world in which value is too
often measured by a cost/benefit ratio. All three groups must
rethink the university.
The underlying theme of the eight essays and addresses, four of
them published for the first time, is that teachers in the
humanities are the spokespersons of the university's history and
future, doing the heavy lifting in teaching the bulk of the
students those intellectual skills--critical reading, writing,
culture, and thought--that will serve them no matter what their
major or future employment. The volume illustrates a series of
positions from how a teacher should be able to get tenure to what
can be taught in innovative, cross-disciplinary teaching. Other
topics address why one should teach European languages, how books
and jobs are related in today's academy, and whether scientific
research can have a place in the teaching of the humanities.
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