The humanities in the age of technologyCiriaco Morón Arroyo.

Morón Arroyo, Ciriaco.

The humanities in the age of technologyCiriaco Morón Arroyo. - Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, (c)2002. - 1 online resource (xii, 263 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Toward a Definition -- Thesis: Abstract definition -- Renaissance humanism -- three cultures -- Two humanists: Ortega y Gasset and Lain Entralgo -- Synthesis: Concrete definition -- Humanistic Disciplines -- Language, culture, linguistics -- Literature and literatures -- History -- Classicism -- Philosophy -- Religion and theology -- Signposts without boundaries -- Interdisciplinary -- Interdisciplinary disciplines -- specialist in general ideas -- Juxtaposition -- And -- Renaissance man -- Man: Values -- root -- Rational animal -- Being-in-the-world -- Humanistic discourse -- essay -- Values -- Crisis -- Symptoms -- wound -- crisis of truth -- crisis of education -- social structure as crisis -- In the United States -- Reading -- Concept versus image -- Life is a Dream -- mixture of man and beast -- Two modern texts -- Reading and the author's intention -- Knowing, pleasure -- Understanding -- Signifiers and signifieds -- Sources, parallelisms, and irony -- Identification and distance -- Perspective, ideology -- Learning -- Ideal reading and legitimate readings -- Knowing -- Concepts versus images -- Toward knowledge -- Literary knowledge -- Literary knowledge and reality -- Usefulness -- useful -- In praise of teaching and learning -- Other career opportunities -- Intrinsic usefulness -- Value -- personal self -- Collective identity; culture -- Communication -- sense of life -- Creativity -- Faith in the humanities.



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Humanities.
Science and the humanities.


Electronic Books.

AZ228 / .H863 2002