The future without a past : the humanities in a technological society / John Paul Russo.
The future without a past : the humanities in a technological society / John Paul Russo.
The future without a past : the humanities in a technological society / John Paul Russo.
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Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2005.
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N001.301/1
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English
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p. cm.
Contents
I. The future of the humanities in a technological society -- II. The great forgetting : library, media center, and Las Vegas -- III. The circle of knowledge : science and the humanistic curriculum from Petrarch to Trilling -- IV. Belief and sincerity -- V. The tranquilized poem : the crisis of the...
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Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c2005.
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Missouri
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c2005.
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"In The Future without a Past, John Paul Russo goes beyond currently given reasons for the decline of the humanities and searches out its root causes in the technologization of everyday life. His main premise is that we are undergoing a transformation at the hands of technological imperatives such as rationalization, universalism, monism, and auton...
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The future without a past : the humanities in a technological society / John Paul Russo.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N001.301/1
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74VKd5A4VyEb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKd5A4VyEb
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0826215866 (alk. paper)
9780826215864 (alk. paper)
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001.301
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991020120189702626
