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Humanities in the Twenty-First Century : Beyond Utility and Markets / by Eleonora Belfiore, Anna Upchurch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Belfiore, Eleonora., Author.
- Upchurch, Anna, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arts.
- Literature.
- Culture--Study and teaching.
- Culture.
- Social sciences.
- Humanities.
- Philosophy.
- Social history.
- Cultural Studies.
- Humanities and Social Sciences.
- Social History.
- Local Subjects:
- Arts.
- Literature.
- Cultural Studies.
- Humanities and Social Sciences.
- Philosophy.
- Social History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (273 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2013.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection of essays by scholars with expertise in a range of fields, cultural professionals and policy makers explores different ways in which the arts and humanities contribute to dealing with the challenges of contemporary society in ways that do not rely on simplistic and questionable notions of socio-economic impact as a proxy for value.
- Contents:
- pt. I. The humanities and their 'impact'
- pt. II. Utility v. value
- pt. III. The humanities and interdisciplinarity
- pt. IV. Meaning making and the market
- pt. V. Digitisation, ethics, and the humanities.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137361356
- 1137361352
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