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9789004318298 | Rodopi Bv Editions, June 16, 2016, cover price $119.00

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Product Description: An entrepreneur and educator highlights the surprising influence of humanities scholarship on biomedical research and civil liberties. This spirited defence urges society to support the humanities to obtain continued guidance for public policy decisions, and challenges scholars to consider how best to fulfil their role in serving the common good...read more

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9781137497451 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 18, 2015, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: An entrepreneur and educator highlights the surprising influence of humanities scholarship on biomedical research and civil liberties.

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9781137497468 | Palgrave Macmillan, October 18, 2015, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: An entrepreneur and educator highlights the surprising influence of humanities scholarship on biomedical research and civil liberties.

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Product Description: Demonstrating that the supposed drawbacks of the humanities are in fact their source of practical value, Jay explores current debates about the role of the humanities in higher education, puts them in historical context, and offers humanists and their supporters concrete ways to explain the practical value of a contemporary humanities education...read more

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9781137403308 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 17, 2014, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: Demonstrating that the supposed drawbacks of the humanities are in fact their source of practical value, Jay explores current debates about the role of the humanities in higher education, puts them in historical context, and offers humanists and their supporters concrete ways to explain the practical value of a contemporary humanities education.

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Product Description: Can civic engagement rescue the humanities from a prolonged identity crisis? How can the practices and methods, the conventions and innovations of humanities teaching and scholarship yield knowledge that contributes to the public good? These are just two of the vexing questions David D...read more

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9781611861129 | Michigan State Univ Pr, April 1, 2014, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Can civic engagement rescue the humanities from a prolonged identity crisis?

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Product Description: Reexamining Emmanuel Levinas’s essays on Jewish education, Claire Elise Katz provides new insights into the importance of education and its potential to transform a democratic society, for Levinas’s larger philosophical project...read more

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9780253007629 | Indiana Univ Pr, December 11, 2012, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Reexamining Emmanuel Levinas’s essays on Jewish education, Claire Elise Katz provides new insights into the importance of education and its potential to transform a democratic society, for Levinas’s larger philosophical project.

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9780253007650 | Indiana Univ Pr, December 11, 2012, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Reexamining Emmanuel Levinas’s essays on Jewish education, Claire Elise Katz provides new insights into the importance of education and its potential to transform a democratic society, for Levinas’s larger philosophical project.

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In his famous classification of the sciences, Francis Bacon not only catalogued those branches of knowledge that already existed in his time, but also anticipated the new disciplines he believed would emerge in the future: the "desirable sciences." Mikhail Epstein echoes, in part, Bacon's vision and outlines the "desirable" disciplines and methodologies that may emerge in the humanities in response to the new realities of the twenty-first century. Are the humanities a purely scholarly field, or should they have some active, constructive supplement? We know that technology serves as the practical extension of the natural sciences, and politics as the extension of the social sciences. Both technology and politics are designed to transform what their respective disciplines study objectively. The Transformative Humanities: A Manifesto addresses the question: Is there any activity in the humanities that would correspond to the transformative status of technology and politics? It argues that we need a practical branch of the humanities which functions similarly to technology and politics, but is specific to the cultural domain. The book addresses issues of philosophy, linguistics, semiotics, literature and cultural studies in constructive and projective terms.  It  presents in detail a wide range of  methods that would define the  future of the humanities in the 21st century and  inspire their creative collaboration with new technologies.

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9781441100467 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, September 13, 2012, cover price $130.00

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9781441155078 | 1 edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, September 13, 2012), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: In his famous classification of the sciences, Francis Bacon not only catalogued those branches of knowledge that already existed in his time, but also anticipated the new disciplines he believed would emerge in the future: the "desirable sciences.

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9781107019065 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 17, 2012, cover price $110.00

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9781107698505 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 17, 2012, cover price $34.99

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Product Description: “How do we think?” N. Katherine Hayles poses this question at the beginning of this bracing exploration of the idea that we think through, with, and alongside media. As the age of print passes and new technologies appear every day, this proposition has become far more complicated, particularly for the traditionally print-based disciplines in the humanities and qualitative social sciences...read more

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9780226321400 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 5, 2012, cover price $86.00 | About this edition: “How do we think?

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9780226321424 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 5, 2012, cover price $25.00

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9789027233479 | John Benjamins Pub Co, May 30, 2012, cover price $149.00

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9789027233486 | John Benjamins Pub Co, May 30, 2012, cover price $54.00

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Product Description: Centralization and over-professionalization can lead to the disappearance of a critical environment capable of linking the human sciences to the real world. The authors of this volume suggest that the humanities need to operate in a concrete cultural environment able to influence procedures on a hic et nunc basis, and that they should not entirely depend on normative criteria whose function is often to hide ignorance behind a pretentious veil of value-neutral objectivity...read more

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9781443833530 | Cambridge Scholars Pub, November 1, 2011, cover price $58.95 | About this edition: Centralization and over-professionalization can lead to the disappearance of a critical environment capable of linking the human sciences to the real world.

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Product Description: Over his distinguished career as a European intellectual historian and cultural critic, Martin Jay has explored a variety of major themes: the Frankfurt School, the exile of German intellectuals in America during the Nazi era, Western Marxism, the denigration of vision in twentieth-century French thought, the discourse of experience in modern Europe and America, and lying in politics...read more

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9780813931333, titled "Essays from the Edge: Parerga & Paralipomena" | Univ of Virginia Pr, May 31, 2011, cover price $43.50 | About this edition: Over his distinguished career as a European intellectual historian and cultural critic, Martin Jay has explored a variety of major themes: the Frankfurt School, the exile of German intellectuals in America during the Nazi era, Western Marxism, the denigration of vision in twentieth-century French thought, the discourse of experience in modern Europe and America, and lying in politics.

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Product Description: This book brings together an international roster of renowned scholars from disciplines including philosophy, political theory, intellectual history, and literary studies to address the conceptual foundations of the humanities and the question of their future...read more
By James J. Bono (editor), Tim Dean (editor) and Ewa Plonowska Ziarek (editor)

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9780823229192 | Fordham Univ Pr, October 15, 2008, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: This book brings together an international roster of renowned scholars from disciplines including philosophy, political theory, intellectual history, and literary studies to address the conceptual foundations of the humanities and the question of their future.

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9780823229208 | Fordham Univ Pr, October 15, 2008, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: This book brings together an international roster of renowned scholars from disciplines including philosophy, political theory, intellectual history, and literary studies to address the conceptual foundations of the humanities and the question of their future.

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Product Description: Dualism is a motif that runs through literature of all genres and historical contexts, inspiring argumentation at the highest level and showing the formation of ideas in association as a creative exchange. It arises with special pertinence in western literature since the Renaissance and Reformation...read more

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9780802097637 | Univ of Toronto Pr, December 8, 2007, cover price $77.00 | About this edition: Dualism is a motif that runs through literature of all genres and historical contexts, inspiring argumentation at the highest level and showing the formation of ideas in association as a creative exchange.

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Product Description: Remapping the Humanities celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Wayne State University Humanities Center by bringing together essays that illustrate the richness of public conversations developed in interdisciplinary humanities centers...read more

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9780814333693 | Pap/com edition (Wayne State Univ Pr, November 30, 2007), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Remapping the Humanities celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Wayne State University Humanities Center by bringing together essays that illustrate the richness of public conversations developed in interdisciplinary humanities centers.

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Product Description: The Figure of the Road examines the metaphor of the road, way, or path in works of representative humanities disciplines (literature, religion, philosophy, visual art, popular culture) to show how writers and artists anticipated the dilemma known to contemporary deconstruction as the «aporia» or «pathless place...read more

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9780820488578 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, November 1, 2006, cover price $90.95 | About this edition: The Figure of the Road examines the metaphor of the road, way, or path in works of representative humanities disciplines (literature, religion, philosophy, visual art, popular culture) to show how writers and artists anticipated the dilemma known to contemporary deconstruction as the «aporia» or «pathless place.

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Product Description: The study of culture in the American academy is not confined to a single field, but is a broad-based set of interests located within and across disciplines. This book investigates the relationship among three major ideas in the American academy--interdisciplinarity, humanities, and culture--and traces the convergence of these ideas from the colonial college to new scholarly developments in the latter half of the twentieth century...read more

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9780791465776 | State Univ of New York Pr, December 15, 2005, cover price $74.50 | About this edition: The study of culture in the American academy is not confined to a single field, but is a broad-based set of interests located within and across disciplines.

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9780791465783 | State Univ of New York Pr, December 15, 2005, cover price $31.95

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'Argues that technological imperatives like rationalization, universalism, monism, and autonomy have transformed the humanities and altered the relation between humans and nature. Examines technology and its impact on education, historical memory, and technological and literary values in criticism and theory, concluding with an analysis of the fiction of Don DeLillo'--Provided by publisher.

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9780826215864 | Univ of Missouri Pr, May 28, 2005, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: 'Argues that technological imperatives like rationalization, universalism, monism, and autonomy have transformed the humanities and altered the relation between humans and nature.

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Product Description: The humanities--in their conceptual and intellectual specificity, disciplinary rigor, and ethical, social, and political potential--are very much in need of defense and rearticulation in our time, particularly from a perspective that moves beyond the political and philosophical reductions of identity politics...read more

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9780816644810 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, October 1, 2004, cover price $55.50 | About this edition: The humanities--in their conceptual and intellectual specificity, disciplinary rigor, and ethical, social, and political potential--are very much in need of defense and rearticulation in our time, particularly from a perspective that moves beyond the political and philosophical reductions of identity politics.

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9780816644827 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, October 1, 2004, cover price $18.50 | About this edition: Fynsk (comparative literature and philosophy, Binghampton U.

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Product Description: 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...read more

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9780791456477 | State Univ of New York Pr, April 1, 2003, cover price $78.50 | About this edition: 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.

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9780791456484 | State Univ of New York Pr, March 1, 2003, cover price $33.95 | About this edition: 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.

By Tom Cohen (editor)

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9780521623704 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 1, 2002, cover price $99.99

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9780521625654 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 1, 2002, cover price $44.99

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Product Description: The book raises questions about the underlying paradigms of contemporary learning and social thinking, including the nature of consciousness and the mind, the purpose and conduct of eduation, the role of science and scientific methodologies, the place of art and literature, or relationship to the environment, our concepts of spirituality, our attitudes to the past and also what we are doing to our own future...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By William S. Haney (editor) and Peter Malekin (editor)

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9780838754979 | Bucknell Univ Pr, November 1, 2001, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: The book raises questions about the underlying paradigms of contemporary learning and social thinking, including the nature of consciousness and the mind, the purpose and conduct of eduation, the role of science and scientific methodologies, the place of art and literature, or relationship to the environment, our concepts of spirituality, our attitudes to the past and also what we are doing to our own future.
9781611481525 | Bucknell Univ Pr, October 1, 2001, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: This book raises questions about the underlying paradigms of contemporary learning and social thinking, including the nature of consciousness and the mind, the purpose and conduct of education, the role of science and scientific methodologies, the place of art and literature, or relationship to the environment, our concepts of spirituality, our attitudes to the past and also what we are doing to own future.

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Product Description: 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780804732635 | Stanford Univ Pr, July 1, 2000, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Given the attacks on the humanities by the right ("Goethe is not taught anymore!

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9780804732642 | Stanford Univ Pr, August 1, 2000, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Given the attacks on the humanities by the right ("Goethe is not taught anymore!

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Product Description: "The humanities core is back from the dead. Indeed, it is vibrant at increasing numbers of institutions that take seriously--and not just as a cliche--what it means to prepare students for 'living in the twenty-first century.' Those who are forward-thinking will find thoughtful assessments of the most successful programs today...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Michael Nelson (editor)

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9780787947606 | Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, April 6, 2000, cover price $48.00 | About this edition: "The humanities core is back from the dead.

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Product Description: Offers historical and philosophical arguments for treating the humanities as sciences.Human Sciences assesses the importance and value of the humanities historically and philosophically, and makes the case for treating them as sciences...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780791446034 | State Univ of New York Pr, June 1, 2000, cover price $82.50 | About this edition: Offers historical and philosophical arguments for treating the humanities as sciences.

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9780791446041 | State Univ of New York Pr, June 1, 2000, cover price $33.95

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