Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
37.00
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780691140643 (0691140642)
Publish date: April 12th 2010
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Pages no: 184
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Academic,
Read For School,
Education,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Sociology,
Academia
It's pathetic that we live in a society that so little values the humanities that scholars like Nussbaum feel compelled to defend them. Nussbaum's defense of the value of the humanities is informed, intelligent, thoughtful, and obvious. She could have summed up her arguments in a lengthy essay rathe...