Humanities at the Crossroads: The Chicago Neo-Aristotelian Critics and the University of Chicago 1930 - 1950

by Anna-Dorothea Schneider

The Chicago critics, a group of academics that gathered around Ronald S. Crane in the early 1930s, tackled questions that are still relevant today: What is more important - humanistic general education or vocational specialisation? How should a university define its function in the context of an industrial, technological and pluralistic democratic society? What kind of knowledge can the humanities contribute to the development of the individual and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3848747707
• ISBN13: 9783848747702
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft
• Length: 363 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.