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The humanities and the understanding of reality / by Monroe C. Beardsley, Northrop Frye, Frank Kermode, and Barry Bingham ; edited by Thomas B. Stroup

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Lexington, Kentucky : University of Kentucky Press, 1966.
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1 online resource (97 pages)
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Stroup, Thomas B. (Thomas Bradley), 1903-1992 and University of Kentucky
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The humanities and human understanding / Monroe C. Beardsley -- Speculation and concern / Northrop Frye -- The university and the literary public / Frank Kermode -- A journalist looks at the humanities / Barry Bingham.
Summary
In their concern with the perennial controversy between the two great areas in which men seek knowledge, three eminent literary scholars and a distinguished journalist in these essays address themselves to the question, ""Do the humanities provide a form of understanding of reality that the sciences do not?""Monroe C. Beardsley maintains that the humanities considered as contributors to knowledge must deal with the same subject matter as the sciences, but literature and the arts can enlarge our powers of understanding human nature, although not in the way the sciences do (under empirically or.
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9780813164465 (electronic bk.)
081316446X (electronic bk.)
0813154553
9780813154558
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Four papers delivered as lectures at the conference on the humanitites held as a part of the centennial program at the University of Kentucky on October 22-23, 1965.
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