D'Alembert's dream and the utility of the humanities
Critical Review 15 (3-4):459-472 (2003)
| Abstract | Abstract D'Alembert's Preliminary Discourse, a once?influential eighteenth?century consideration of the utility of the humanities, is relevant to contemporary concerns about the declining importance of humanistic education. A sympathetic appraisal of d'Alembert's critique of humanistic erudition as largely useless can serve as a starting point for reconceiving of the humanities as studies that help train the professionals who administer the institutions of modern society to better understand their own commitments. | |||||||||
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