Readings in the Western Humanities
Author: Julie Wildhaber
Publisher: WCB/McGraw-Hill
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781559341998
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Publisher: WCB/McGraw-Hill
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781559341998
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Roy T. Matthews
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780767400541
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Published: 1997-07
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9781559349673
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Roy T. Matthews
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Published: 2003-05
Total Pages: 637
ISBN-13: 9780072556315
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This chronologically organized introduction to the Western humanities (art, music, history, literature, and drama) establishes the historical context of each era before the arts are discussed. Hundreds of illustrations appear throughout the text, "Personal Perspectives" boxes bring to life the events of the day, and brief sections at the end of each chapter describe the cultural legacy of the era discussed. Volume II ofThe Western Humanitiescovers the period from the Renaissance through the present.
Author: Roy Matthews
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Published: 2010-03-04
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780077432638
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Chronologically organized, "The Western Humanities" presents the cultural achievements of western civilization--art and architecture, music, history, literature, philosophy, theater, film and the other arts--within their historical context. By examining the historical and material conditions that influenced the form and content of the arts and humanities, the authors provide students with a clear framework, a deeper understanding of the meaning of cultural works, and a broader basis for analyzing and appreciating the cultural achievements of the West. Specifcally designed to accompany "The Western Humanities," "Readings in the Western Humanities" offers students selections from the West's literary and philosophical heritage, helping them establish vital intellectual links to the achievements of the continually evolving Western tradition. Each reading is preceded by an introduction providing information about the author and historical context for the document.
Author: Roy Matthews
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Published: 2010-01-14
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780077338480
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Designed to accompany volume one of The Western Humanities, Seventh Edition, by Matthews et al., this anthology offers students selections from the West's literary and philosophical heritage, helping them establish vital intellectual links to the achievements of the continually evolving Western tradition. Each reading is preceded by an introduction providing information about the author and historical context for the document. In addition, "Reading the Selections" sections provide more specific information to prepare students for reading the documents to follow. Selections are footnoted.
Author: Roy Matthews
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Published: 2010-01-14
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780077338497
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Designed to accompany volume two of The Western Humanities, Seventh Edition, by Matthews et al., this anthology offers students selections from the West's literary and philosophical heritage, helping them establish vital intellectual links to the achievements of the continually evolving Western tradition. Each reading is preceded by an introduction providing information about the author and historical context for the document. In addition, "Reading the Selections" sections provide more specific information to prepare students for reading the documents to follow. Selections are footnoted.
Author: Roy T. Matthews
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Published: 1997-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781559345781
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Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Published: 2010-01-22
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780073376622
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Chronologically organized, The Western Humanities presents the cultural achievements of western civilization--art and architecture, music, history, literature, philosophy, theater, film and the other arts--within their historical context. By examining the historical and material conditions that influenced the form and content of the arts and humanities, the authors provide students with a clear framework, a deeper understanding of the meaning of cultural works, and a broader basis for analyzing and appreciating the cultural achievements of the West. Hundreds of illustrations bring the arts and humanities to life, while extensive pedagogy consistently asks students to think about, interpret, and apply the information throughout the text and at the end of each chapter.
Author: John Martin Ellis
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780300075793
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the span of less than a generation, university humanities departments have experienced an almost unbelievable reversal of attitudes, now attacking and undermining what had previously been considered best and most worthy in the Western tradition. John M. Ellis here scrutinizes the new regime in humanistic studies. He offers a careful, intelligent analysis that exposes the weaknesses of notions that are fashionable in humanities today. In a clear voice, with forceful logic, he speaks out against the orthodoxy that has installed race, gender, and class perspectives at the center of college humanities curricula. Ellis begins by showing that political correctness is a recurring impulse of Western society and one that has a discouraging history. He reveals the contradictions and misconceptions that surround the new orthodoxy and demonstrates how it is most deficient just where it imagines itself to be superior. Ellis contends that humanistic education today, far from being historically aware, relies on anachronistic thinking; far from being skeptical of Western values, represents a ruthless and unskeptical Western extremism; far from being valuable in bringing political perspectives to bear, presents politics that are crude and unreal; far from being sophisticated in matters of "theory," is largely ignorant of the range and history of critical theory; far from valuing diversity, is unable to respond to the great sweep of literature. In a concluding chapter, Ellis surveys the damage that has been done to higher education and examines the prospects for change.