Humanities in the twenty-first century : beyond utility and markets / edited by Eleonora Belfiore and Anna Upchurch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Belfiore, Eleonora, 1975- editor.

Upchurch, Anna, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanities--Social aspects.

Humanities.

Physical Description:

xii, 256 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Contents:

Introduction: Reframing the 'value' debate for the humanities / Eleonora Belfiore and Anna Upchurch

Part I. The humanities and their 'impact.' The 'rhetoric of gloom' v. the discourse of impact in the humanities : stuck in a deadlock? / Eleonora Belfiore

Speaking out in a digital world : humanities values, humanities processes / Jan Parker

Part II. Utility v. value. The futility of the humanities / Michael Bérubé

Fahrenheit 451 : the higher Philistinism / Jim McGuigan

Speaking of impact : languages and the utility of the humanities / David Looseley

Part III. The humanities and interdisciplinarity. The histories of medicine : toward an applied history of medicine / Howard I. Kushner and Leslie S. Leighton

Productive interactions : geography and the humanities / Connie Johnston

Part IV. Meaning making and the market. Museums and the search for meaning in the 'necessary context' of the market / Mark O'Neill

Values and sustainability at Penland School of Crafts / Anna Upchurch and Jean W. McLaughlin

Part V. Digitisation, ethics, and the humanities. The humanities and open-access publishing : a new paradigm of value? / Eleonora Belfiore

Digital right and the ethics of digitisation : a case study in technology and implicit contracts / Rick McGeer

Hacking the humanities : twenty-first-century literacies and the 'becoming-other' of the humanities / Mark J.V. Olson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230366657

0230366651

0230366635

9780230366633

OCLC:

828486392