Arts of living : reinventing the humanities for the twenty-first century /
"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 educati...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
2003
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| 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."--Jacket |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 312 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-296) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1417500891 9781417500895 079145648X 9780791456484 0791456471 9780791456477 9780791487211 0791487210 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
