A Defence of the Humanities in a Utilitarian Age: Imagining What We Know, 1800-1850

by Paul Keen

Book Overview

This book explores the ways that critics writing in the early nineteenth century developed arguments in favour of the humanities in the face of utilitarian pressures. Its focus reflects the ways that similar pressures today have renewed the question of how to make the case for the public value of the humanities. The good news is that in many ways, this self-reflexive challenge is precisely what the humanities have always done best: highlight the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030326594
• ISBN13: 9783030326593
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 171 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"