Humanities

The humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences.
The humanities include ancient and modern languages, literature, law, history, philosophy, religion, and visual and performing arts such as music and theatre. The humanities that are also regarded as social sciences include technology, anthropology, area studies, communication studies, cultural studies, and linguistics. Scholars working in the humanities are sometimes describe
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The Future of Truth
Futuro ancestral
10 Rules for Raising Kids in a High-Tech World: How Parents Can Stop Smartphones, Social Media, and Gaming from Taking Over Their Children's Lives
A Terra Dá, a Terra Quer
An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West
Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 3 - The Masters of History
Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy
Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity
How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures
The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic, and the Urgent Need for Radical Change
The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World
Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives
Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings
Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year
Awake!: William Blake and the Power of the Imagination
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
The Prince
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
Man's Search for Meaning
The Republic
Thinking, Fast and Slow
The Communist Manifesto
The Odyssey
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
The Art of War
Hamlet
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Orientalism

Abhijit Naskar
Access to essentials must be the first commandment of every single field and discipline, when it's the last instead, and an expendable one at that, every single field and discipline, along with its proud practitioners and proponents, are war criminals. ...more
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Terry Eagleton
Might not too much investment in teaching Shelley mean falling behind our economic competitors? But there is no university without humane inquiry, which means that universities and advanced capitalism are fundamentally incompatible. And the political implications of that run far deeper than the question of student fees.
Terry Eagleton

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