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Permanent Crisis
The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age
Buch von Chad Wellmon (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

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"Any reader of the Chronicle of Higher Education can tell you that the humanities are in crisis. Seen as irrelevant for modern careers and hopelessly devoid of funding, humanistic disciplines seem at the mercy of modernizing forces driving the university towards academic pursuits that pull in grant money and direct students to lucrative careers. But as Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon show, this crisis isn't new--in fact, it's as old as the humanities themselves. Today's humanities scholars experience and react to basic pressures in ways that are strikingly similar to the response of their nineteenth-century German counterparts. In German universities of the 1800s, as in those in the United States today, humanities scholars felt threatened by the very processes that allowed the modern humanities to flourish, such as institutional rationalization and the commodification of knowledge. But Reitter and Wellmon also emphasize the constructive side of crisis discourse. They claim that the self-understanding of the modern humanities didn't merely take shape in response to a perceived crisis; it also made crisis a core part of its project. The humanities came into their own by framing themselves as a unique resource for resolving crises of meaning and value that threatened other cultural or social goods. With this critical, historical perspective, Permanent Crisiscan take humanists beyond the usual scolding, exhorting, and handwringing into clearer, more effective thinking about the fate of the humanities. Furthering ideas from Max Weber and Friedrich Nietzsche to Andrew Delbanco and William Deresiewicz, Reitter and Wellmon dig into the notion of the humanities as a way to find meaning and coherence in the world"--
"Any reader of the Chronicle of Higher Education can tell you that the humanities are in crisis. Seen as irrelevant for modern careers and hopelessly devoid of funding, humanistic disciplines seem at the mercy of modernizing forces driving the university towards academic pursuits that pull in grant money and direct students to lucrative careers. But as Paul Reitter and Chad Wellmon show, this crisis isn't new--in fact, it's as old as the humanities themselves. Today's humanities scholars experience and react to basic pressures in ways that are strikingly similar to the response of their nineteenth-century German counterparts. In German universities of the 1800s, as in those in the United States today, humanities scholars felt threatened by the very processes that allowed the modern humanities to flourish, such as institutional rationalization and the commodification of knowledge. But Reitter and Wellmon also emphasize the constructive side of crisis discourse. They claim that the self-understanding of the modern humanities didn't merely take shape in response to a perceived crisis; it also made crisis a core part of its project. The humanities came into their own by framing themselves as a unique resource for resolving crises of meaning and value that threatened other cultural or social goods. With this critical, historical perspective, Permanent Crisiscan take humanists beyond the usual scolding, exhorting, and handwringing into clearer, more effective thinking about the fate of the humanities. Furthering ideas from Max Weber and Friedrich Nietzsche to Andrew Delbanco and William Deresiewicz, Reitter and Wellmon dig into the notion of the humanities as a way to find meaning and coherence in the world"--
Über den Autor

Paul Reitter is professor of Germanic languages and literatures at the Ohio State University. He is the author and editor of many books, including The Anti-Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siecle Europe, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Chad Wellmon is professor of German studies and history at the University of Virginia. He is the author and editor of many books, including, The Rise of the Research University: A Sourcebook and Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overloadand theInvention of the Modern Research University.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Bildungswesen
Genre: Erziehung & Bildung
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 320
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780226738062
ISBN-10: 022673806X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Wellmon, Chad
Reitter, Paul
Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press
Maße: 237 x 167 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Chad Wellmon (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 18.08.2021
Gewicht: 0,6 kg
preigu-id: 118970775
Über den Autor

Paul Reitter is professor of Germanic languages and literatures at the Ohio State University. He is the author and editor of many books, including The Anti-Journalist: Karl Kraus and Jewish Self-Fashioning in Fin-de-Siecle Europe, also published by the University of Chicago Press. Chad Wellmon is professor of German studies and history at the University of Virginia. He is the author and editor of many books, including, The Rise of the Research University: A Sourcebook and Organizing Enlightenment: Information Overloadand theInvention of the Modern Research University.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Bildungswesen
Genre: Erziehung & Bildung
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 320
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780226738062
ISBN-10: 022673806X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Wellmon, Chad
Reitter, Paul
Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press
Maße: 237 x 167 x 30 mm
Von/Mit: Chad Wellmon (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 18.08.2021
Gewicht: 0,6 kg
preigu-id: 118970775
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