Most Read This Week In 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
A Vida Não É Útil
The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World
Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 3 - The Masters of History
Futuro ancestral
A Terra Dá, a Terra Quer
An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West
Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
Libres d’obéir : Le management, du nazisme à aujourd'hui
Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind
How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures
Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives
Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic, and the Urgent Need for Radical Change
Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings
A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order
Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature
Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care
Foolproof: Why Misinformation Infects Our Minds and How to Build Immunity
Annotation (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series)
Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative
How to Be Animal: A New History of What It Means to Be Human
Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment For Every Day of the Year

Allan Bloom
The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast away treasures...They are like a refugee camp where all the geniuses driven out of their jobs and countries by unfriendly regimes are idling.
Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind

Stefan Collini
Depth of understanding involves something which is more than merely a matter of deconstructive alertness; it involves a measure of interpretative charity and at least the beginnings of a wide responsiveness.
Stefan Collini

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