Arts of living : reinventing the humanities for the twenty-first century / Kurt Spellmeyer.

"Arts of Living presents a social history of the humanities and a proposal for the future that places creativity at the heart of higher education. Engaging with the debate launched by Allan Bloom, Harold Bloom, Bill Readings, John Guillory, and others, Kurt Spellmeyer argues that higher educati...

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Main Author: Spellmeyer, Kurt
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Summary:"Arts of Living presents a social history of the humanities and a proposal for the future that places creativity at the heart of higher education. Engaging with the debate launched by Allan Bloom, Harold Bloom, Bill Readings, John Guillory, and others, Kurt Spellmeyer argues that higher education needs to abandon the "culture wars" if it hopes to address the major crises of the century: globalization, the degradation of the environment, the widening chasm between rich and poor, and the clash of cultures."--Jacket
Physical Description:1 online resource (vii, 312 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-296) and index.
ISBN:1417500891
9781417500895
079145648X
9780791456484
0791456471
9780791456477
9780791487211
0791487210
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.