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086644
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Research libraries take up a vast amount of physical and psychic space.They inhabit spectacular buildings, old and new, which occupy prime real estate in cities and on campuses.
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086646
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2009.
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We seldom speak of the electrical, the automotive, or the aeronautical humanities, for all that those technologies have done to revolutionize the social order of scholarship and transform the practices of scholars.
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086651
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2009.
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Since the mid-twentieth century, the professionalization of our disciplines has been a hallmark of higher education in general and the research university in particular.Despite the repeated calls over the past twenty-five years for a renewal of the civic mission of higher education, professionalization continues to hold tenacious sway and is largely understood to contradict the purposes and practices of public scholarship, which, in turn, is dismissed under the demoralizing rubric of service or the paternalistic rubric of outreach.
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086640
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2009.
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The mere exercise of reading the text as it really is will make the reader moral and wise in a direct way that no systemic body of dogmatic teaching can rival ...The real point of close reading is that it produces the right sort of person-a person of evident worth.
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086638
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2009.
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Because liberal arts colleges are " in certain respects more diverse than any other type of higher education institution, " and because their nature, history, generally shared characteristics, even their very number, are so often a matter of contention, I have learned over the years the wisdom, when attempting to say something about them, of begining with a preliminary exercise in intellectual throat-clearing.
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086648
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2009.
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The performing arts, sometimes regarded as separate from the humanities, in fact bring the humanities to life. Through performance, the written word travels from the mind's eye to the lips and to the ear.
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086643
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2009.
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In 1997, Princeton University Press published a volume, What's Happened to the Humanities?, which rang with alarm.Even contributors such as Francis Oakley, Carla Hesse, and Lynn Hunt, who tried to warn against despair by explaining how the current situation had come about,provided only a fragile defense against fundamental and deeply threatening change,while others such as Denis donoghue and Gertrude Himmelfarb wrote in palpable fear of the future.
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086642
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2009.
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It is the twelfth day
The hero will not take food
He refuses wine sleep women
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086634
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2009.
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The humanities protect and give life to our most enduring values. The very DNA of civilization is encoded in the poet's song, the painter's brushstroke, and the vibrant dialogue about ideas. Although the study of the humanities cultivates the critical thought necessary for a civil society, it has suffered neglect over the last few decades, both in terms of financial support and in the national debate on education.
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086630
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2009.
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While we have much to celebrate, our democracy needs continuing attention. We might well take the view that it needs more attention now than it has in some time.Consider the terms " the public good" "knowledge," and "a democratic society.
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086653
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2009.
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Never abundant,financial support for the "academic humanities" is now scarce.How scarce it is,both in absolute and relative terms, and whether the humanities now confront particularly hard times, are the pressing questions.
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086635
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2009.
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In 1964, the historian J.H. Plumb announced a crisis in the humanities: " Alas, the rising tide of scientific and industrial societies,combined with the battering of two World Wars, has shattered the confidence of humanists in their capcity to lead or to instruct.
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ID:
086641
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2009.
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Just over ten years ago, the mood of a large section of the North American academic world was caught in the title of a volume published by Princeton University Press with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation .
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