The underlying current of rural values in American life is discussed. (CK)

Argues that criticism of science and technology for their detrimental effects on human life and society are misdirected, and that the real culprit is the engineer. (EB)

Suggests that the exploration of values might form a bridge linking the sciences and humanities. Discusses problems of application of knowledge in both fields. Emphasizes the need for new values and political instruments with changing knowledge and situations. (EB)

Argues that reinstituting humanities programs in the public schools can help prepare students to cope with a complex world. (FL)

Lists the qualities that instruction in the humanities contributes to effective business managers and recommends that businesses broaden their hiring practices to include humanities majors. (AEA)

Discusses the effects of the computer and telecommunications revolution on the humanities and compares the modes of conception and analysis that are inherent in the computer and in the humanities. (AEA)

Examines the relationship between technology and American ideals and liberal values, considering the positive and negative consequences of technological advancements. Argues that the proper role of the humanities is to review and rethink values so that technological choices made will be more attractive. (DMM)

Argues for humanities instruction in community colleges; describes an ethnic studies program with a humanities perspective. (EF)

The university allows trained people to search for new knowledge and go beyond into the methodology and assumptions of science. In the humanities, the university forces disciplines into contact with each other and with other fields. It is there that faith and reason can contend fruitfully and be reconciled. (MSE)

Compares the historical approach to research methodologies in other social sciences. The author concludes that history, as a discipline, is more of a humanity because it does not claim to understand why changes occur over time, but devotes itself to describing the past events which shape present and future. (AM)

Imaginative account of an encounter between a modern English teacher and John Dewey, applying Dewey's insights to contemporary issues in English education. (DF)

Discusses the state of the humanities in the two-year college. (FL)

Attempts a brief summary of the American critical scene for the period 1935-1965 in order to indicate the serial prominence of 1) a sociological, 2) a New-Critical, and 3) a Marxist moment in literary criticism. Sets out to assert that for any literary work to be taught as a humanity is to bring to bear upon it the arts of communication,…

Contends that academia needs to move beyond separate departments and disciplines as they have been understood over the past century. Advocates facing up to the gravity of the environmental situation, looking for a sustainable vision that will unite individuals in a community effort, and seeking literary insights into the problem. (PA)