The Transformative Humanities: A Manifesto

by Mikhail Epstein

Book Overview

Distinguished scholar Mikhail Epstein offers a re-assessment of the role of the humanities and advocates their constructive potential for the society and intellectual culture of the future.

In his famous classification of the sciences, Francis Bacon not only catalogued those branches of knowledge that already existed in his time, but also anticipated the new disciplines he believed would emerge in the future: the "desirable sciences."...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441155074
• ISBN13: 9781441155078
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.2"