The power of the humanities & a challenge to humanists

Daedalus

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-23

  Franke, Richard J ^a  

^a John Nuveen Company   (United States)

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EID: 62449218074     PISSN: 00115266     EISSN: 15486192     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/daed.2009.138.1.13     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Task Force on General Education, Report of the Task Force on General Education (President and Fellows of Harvard College, 2007), preface.
2. John Hammer, On Federal Support for the Humanities in Comparison with the Sciences (American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2007).
3. WebCASPAR, Integrated Science and Engineering Resources Data System, http ://web caspar.nsf.gov (accessed October 15, 2007).
4. The Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education, A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of U.S. Higher Education (2006), 25.
5. The arts and humanities are often distinguished; the art historian studies art whereas the artist makes art. Nevertheless, good art criticism requires the imagination of an artist, and good art requires making informed decisions. In general, the humanities cultivate both our critical and creative faculties, which is precisely what makes them so useful. I want to emphasize the creative aspects of the humanities by including the arts in their definition.
6. Some universities regard history as a social science, and indeed it does straddle the distinction. As a history major and a lifelong supporter of the humanities, I tend to think of history as a humanistic endeavor.
7. Jacob Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, trans. S. Middlemore (London: Phaidon Press, 1944), part 3.
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11. Henri de Lubac, Medieval Exegesis, vol. 2, trans. E. M. Macierowski (Grand Rapids, Mich.: W. E. Eerdmans, 2000).
12. Martin Kemp, Leonardo da Vinci: The Marvelous Works of Nature and Man (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 251.
13. Isaac Newton, Principia, trans. I. Cohen and A. Whitman (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), 943.
14. C. P. Snow, Public Affairs (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971), 13-47.
15. Jonathan Wilson, Herzog: The Limits of Ideas (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1990), 8.