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A Defence of the Humanities in a Utilitarian Age

Part of the Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-32660-9

ISBN: 978-3-030-32659-3

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Aug 26, 2020

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Introduction: The Humanities in a Utilitarian Age

Keen, Paul

Pages: 1 –19

[This chapter sets out the larger argument and context which inform the historical focus of the succeeding chapters by situating it in terms of three mid-twentieth century interventions: a collection of essays entitled Crisis in the Humanities (1964) which warned that “the humanities are at a...
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Chapter 1: Interventions

Keen, Paul

Pages: 21 –57

[This chapter begins to map out the way that early nineteenth-century critics engaged with these issues by framing them in terms of Thomas Macaulay’s damning response in the Edinburgh Review to Robert Southey’s Colloquies on Society (1830)—a review that foregrounded precisely this question of the...
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Chapter 2: Accommodations

Keen, Paul

Pages: 59 –103

[If some advocates for the forms of knowledge that were soon to become known as the humanities in their modern institutional form pushed back against their marginalization within the reform movement by inverting the hierarchical relation between so-called useful knowledge (or information) and the...
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Chapter 3: Institutions

Keen, Paul

Pages: 105 –135

[The next chapter turns to the ways that these debates manifested themselves in the beginnings of the institutional contexts that are an inseparable element of our debates about the humanities today by focusing on the campaign to develop University College London (founded in 1826). Plans for idea...
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Chapter 4: The Idea of a University

Keen, Paul

Pages: 137 –152

[Having explored the arguments that focused, both directly and indirectly, on the role of the humanities in the face of cries for “useful knowledge,” whether these advocates responded by simply inverting the hierarchical relation between imaginative and instrumentalist forms of knowledge or by...
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Conclusion

Keen, Paul

Pages: 153 –158

[The Conclusion returns to the question of how knowing more about this longer historical perspective can help us to make the case for the humanities today by returning to the book’s opening discussion of Raymond Williams’s efforts to theorize a radical humanism as a force for social and political...

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