Humanities in the Twenty-First Century : Beyond Utility and Markets
Eleonora. Belfiore
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan , 2013
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (273 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Reframing the 'Value' Debate for the Humanities ; Part I The Humanities and Their 'Impact' ; Introduction to Part I ; 1 The 'Rhetoric of Gloom' v. the Discourse of Impact in the Humanities: Stuck in a Deadlock?; 2 Speaking Out in a Digital World: Humanities Values, Humanities Processes; Part II Utility v. Value. - 12 Hacking the Humanities: Twenty-First-Century Literacies and the 'Becoming-Other' of the HumanitiesIndex. - Introduction to Part II 3 The Futility of the Humanities; 4 Fahrenheit 451: The Higher Philistinism; 5 Speaking of Impact: Languages and the Utility of the Humanities; Part III The Humanities and Interdisciplinarity ; Introduction to Part III ; 6 The Histories of Medicine: Toward an Applied History of Medicine; 7 Productive Interactions: Geography and the Humanities; Part IV Meaning M aking and the Market. - Introduction to Part IV 8 Museums and the Search for Meaning in the 'Necessary Context' of the Market; 9 Values and Sustainability at Penland School of Crafts; Part V Digitisation, Ethics, and the Humanities ; Introduction to Part V ; 10 The Humanities and Open-Access Publishing: A New Paradigm of Value?; 11 Digital Right and the Ethics of Digitisation: A Case Study in Technology and Implicit Contracts. - This collection of essays by scholars with expertise in a range of fields, cultural professionals and policy makers explores different ways in which the arts and humanities contribute to dealing with the challenges of contemporary society in ways that do not rely on simplistic and questionable notions of socio-economic impact as a proxy for value.
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| ISBN | 9780230366633. - 9780230366657
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