The Value of the Humanities
Oxford University Press, $38.95 hb, 212 pp, 9780199683864
Education
What we're up to
Valuing the Humanities
by Colin Steele •
Helen Small, Professor of English at Pembroke College, Oxford, adopts a pragmatic and non-polemical approach in addressing The Value of the Humanities. This topic has been much debated recently as political and economic pressures on universities and funding agencies have led to an alleged devaluation of the humanities.
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