Description:
A New Deal for the Humanities brings together twelve prominent scholars who shed light on the many concerns swirling around the humanities today--exploring the history of the liberal arts in America, their present state, and their future direction. The volume focuses on public higher education, for it is in our state schools that the liberal arts are taught to the greatest numbers, where the decline of those fields would be most damaging, and where their strength is most threatened.
Review Quotes: "Hutner and Mohamed offer ten essays about changing views of a liberal arts philosophy in public institutions of higher education ... The essays are all by respected and experienced scholars, among them Jeffrey Williams (Carnegie Mellon), Yolanda Moses (Univ. of California, Riverside), and Christopher Newfield (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara) ... Summing up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, and professionals."-- "CHOICE"