Daedalus 138:1 (Winter 2009) - Reflecting on the Humanities

by Leslie Berlowitz, Patricia Meyer Spacks, Richard J. Franke

Reflecting on the humanities
Patricia Meyer Spacks and Leslie Berlowitz

The public good: knowledge as the foundation for a democratic society
Don Michael Randel

The power of the humanities & a challenge to humanists
Richard J. Franke

Where the humanities live
Edward L. Ayers

The humanities in liberal arts colleges: another instance of collegiate exceptionalism?
Francis Oakley

The humanities & social change
Gerald Early

A world without literature?
Michael Wood

Poem by Rosanna Warren
Rosanna Warren

Perspectives, connections & objects: what's happening in history now?
Caroline W. Bynum

Apocalypse in the stacks? The research library in the age of Google
Anthony Grafton

Engaging the humanities: the digital humanities
James J. O'Donnell

Performing the humanities at the Ethiopian Millennium
Kay Kaufman Shelemay

The future of the humanities- in the present & in public
Kathleen Woodward

Recent trends in funding for the academic humanities & their implications
Harriet Zuckerman and Ronald G. Ehrenberg

196 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 13, 2009