Humanities in Review: Volume 1

The articles in this volume are diverse, each article is based upon lectures given under the auspices of the New York Institute for the Humanities.

Ronald Dworkin (Edited by), Karl Miller (Edited by), Richard Sennett (Edited by), David Rieff (General editor)

9780521271059, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 28 February 1983

248 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.37 kg

The articles in this volume cover a wide range of intellectually exciting issues, written by people who were considered at the summit of their fields of enquiry. Though the individual topics addressed are diverse, each article can be taken as representative of 'humanistic understanding' of its stated subject. The volume is the first of a series based upon lectures given under the auspices of the New York Institute for the Humanities.

Part I. The Body and Society: 1. Sexuality and solitude Michel Foucault and Richard Sennett
2. A short history of body consciousness Jean Starobinski
3. The sacred and the body social in sixteenth-century Lyon Natalie Zemon Davis
Part II. The Nature of Acting: 4. Acting in everyday life and everyday life in acting Victor Turner
5. The actor as a celebrity Richard Gilman
Part III. How form in Art is Related to Culture: 6. The breaking of form Harold Bloom
7. The 'I' as an other in poetry Stephen Spender
8. Music does not flow: constant and variable elements in music's patterning Virgil Thomson
Part IV. Studies in Cultural History: 9. The occult philosophy in the Elizabethan age Frances Yates
10. Triumph or downfall of civil society Alain Touraine.

Subject Areas: History [HB]