Arts of living : reinventing the humanities for the twenty-first century / Kurt Spellmeyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spellmeyer, Kurt.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanities--Study and teaching (Higher)--United States.

Humanities.

Humanities--Philosophy.

Learning and scholarship--United States--History.

Learning and scholarship.

Humanities--Political aspects--United States.

Humanities--United States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Arts of Living presents a social history of the humanities and a proposal for the future that places creativity at the heart of higher education. Engaging with the debate launched by Allan Bloom, Harold Bloom, Bill Readings, John Guillory, and others, Kurt Spellmeyer argues that higher education needs to abandon the "culture wars" if it hopes to address the major crises of the century: globalization, the degradation of the environment, the widening chasm between rich and poor, and the clash of cultures.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Part I

Taking the Humanities Out of the Box

Democracy Sets in the West

The Great Divide

The Trouble with English

The Poverty of Progress

Part II

The Wages of Theory

World without End

Specialists with Spirit

“Art Serves Love”

Travels to the Heart of the Forest

Postscript

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-296) and index.

ISBN:

0-7914-8721-0

1-4175-0089-1

OCLC:

61367688