“Imagining What We Know”: The Humanities in a Utilitarian Age
This paper explores the ways that critics writing in the early nineteenth century developed arguments in favor of what we think of today as the humanities in the face of utilitarian pressures that dismissed the arts as self-indulgent pursuits incapable of addressing real-world problems. Its focus re...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2014-03-01
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| Series: | Humanities |
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| Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/3/1/73 |