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What are the humanities for?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2009

Alain de Botton
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Abstract

The popular acclaim for Alan Sokal's ‘Intellectual Impostures’ suggests a deep-seated suspicion about the value of much theoretical work in the humanities. But if the heroic age of scholarship is past, what are the humanities for? To teach us how to lead better lives?

Type
Erasmus Lecture
Information
European Review , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , February 1999 , pp. 19 - 25
Copyright
Copyright © Academia Europaea 1999

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