Research Catalog

Title

The humanities and everyday life / Michael Levenson.

Author

Levenson, Michael,

Publication

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.

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Details

Description

172 pages; 20 cm.

Summary

We think of the humanities as a cluser of specialized academic activities. So they are. But they also belong to the ordinary world, the world where students and faculty make connections and careers; where they eat and drink and fret; where they move through new buildings and old seminar rooms. In The Humanities and Everyday Life, Michael LEvenson places the academic humanities within this field of daily life, where abstract thought stands alongside routine needs. The humanities also live outside the university in activities that have been overlooked or undervalued: in book clubs, in historical re-enactments, in visits to museums and libraries, in private collections, in contributions to Wikipedia, and in amateur genealogy. These activities belong to the humanities, quite as much as research published in specialty journals. Probing distinctions between professionals and amateurs and asking what constitutes expertise, The Humanities and Everyday Life addresses both the university and the world beyond, to see where they meet and fail to meet, and to argue that the walls between them should lower. -- from back cover.

Series Statement

The literary agenda

Uniform Title

Literary agenda.

Subject

• Alltag
• Humanities > Study and teaching
• Humanities
• Humanwissenschaften

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-167) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The humanities at large -- Departments, disciplines -- Experts and expertise -- The humanities in time -- Places to think in: Library, museum, seminar.

ISBN

• 0198808291
• 9780198808299

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library