Humanities for Humans

Humanities for HumansCan the academic humanities serve the general public to address some of todays most critical challenges? This unusual volume builds on the conversation series "Humanities for Humans," curated by Irene Kacandes and funded by the De Gruyter Foundation and the New York nonprofit 1014: Space for Ideas, to answer this question in the affirmative. By asking some North Americas most prominent academics to think aloud in clear language on topics such as

the central hanif shrine and the new qibla or direction of prayer for the Muslims

the management of foreign affairs

a treatise purporting to contain the laws that had been in force under the Anglo-Saxon King Edward the Confessor (1042-1066)

Gegenüber der Steuerfrage und den Forderungen der Konfessionsparteien

Erich Wolfgang Korngold

and at the same time challenges many cherished assumptions about who benefits and who suffers from the state’s commitment to prison expansion

It provides a mathematical theory of negative probabilities

Moving from students to schooling to social forces

the city on its own terms

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Mengenlehre" verfügbar

Es stellt dar

While this violence is projected in disembodied form through media